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.
