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Guake Terminal: A Customizable Linux Terminal for Power Users [Inspired by an FPS Game]
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_**Brief: Quickly access your terminal that is customizable and powerful for a variety of users with Guake Terminal emulator.**_

### Guake Terminal: Top-Down Terminal for GNOME Desktop

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[Guake][2] is a terminal emulator that’s tailored for GNOME desktop with a top-down design.

It was originally inspired from the terminal seen in an FPS game ([Quake][3]). Even though it was initially built as a quick and accessible terminal, it is much more than that.

Guake terminal offers a ton of features, and customizable options. Here, I’ll highlight the key features of the terminal along with the process of getting it installed on any of your Linux distribution.

### Features of Guake Terminal

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  * Keyboard Shortcut (**F12**) to launch the terminal anywhere as an overlay
  * Guake terminal runs in the background for persistent access
  * Ability to split tabs horizontally and vertically
  * Change the default shell from available options (if any)
  * Re-alignment option
  * Change appearance of the terminal from a wide selection of color palettes
  * Ability to save the content of the terminal to a file using GUI option
  * Toggle Full screen option when needed
  * You can easily save the tabs or open new tabs when needed
  * Ability to restore tabs
  * Option to configure and learn new keyboard shortcuts to quickly access the terminal and perform tasks
  * Change colors of specific tabs
  * Easily rename the tabs to quickly access what you already need
  * Quick open feature to open text files directly from your terminal on your favorite editor with a click
  * Ability to add your own command or scripts when starting up or showing up the Guake terminal
  * Multi-monitor support



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Just to have fun, you can do a great deal of things. But, I also believe that power users can make use of the features to make their terminal experience easier and more productive.

For the time I used it to test out a few things and write this article, I felt like I was summoning the terminal to be honest. So, I definitely find it cool!

### Installing Guake Terminal on Linux

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**Guake Terminal is available through the default repositories on Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch**.

You can follow its official instructions to know the commands you can use or if you’re using an Ubuntu-based distro, simply type in:

```
sudo apt install guake
```

Do note that you may not get the latest version using this method. So, if you want to have the latest version, you can opt to use the PPA by [Linux Uprising][7] to get the latest version:

```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/guake
sudo apt update
sudo apt install guake
```

In either case, you can also get it using [Pypi][8] or from source by referring to the [official documentation][9] or the [GitHub page][10].

[Guake Terminal][10]

What do you think about Guake Terminal? Do you think of it as a useful terminal emulator? Anything similar that you know of?

Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments down below.

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作者：[Ankush Das][a]
选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/ankush/
[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
[1]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/guake-terminal-1.png?resize=800%2C363&ssl=1
[2]: http://guake-project.org/
[3]: https://quake.bethesda.net/en
[4]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/guake-terminal.jpg?resize=800%2C245&ssl=1
[5]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/guake-preferences.jpg?resize=800%2C559&ssl=1
[6]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/guake-terminal-2.png?resize=800%2C432&ssl=1
[7]: https://www.linuxuprising.com/
[8]: https://pypi.org/
[9]: https://guake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/installing.html
[10]: https://github.com/Guake/guake