Yakuake is a terminal emulator in the purest Quake style, the well-known shooter game. Although it allows us to perform the same tasks that we could carry out in a conventional terminal, Yakuake has the advantage of running in the background, so that by pressing F12 we can show or hide it to our liking, without implying canceling the jobs in process, etc.
Although there are users who shy away from everything related to the terminal as much as possible, the truth is that there is a large portion of Linux users who feel comfortable with it and who use it daily for all kinds of activities. Precisely for them, Yakuake is an almost essential invention. So, I will explain how it is installed and some aspects of its subsequent configuration, in this case under KDE, but it is to be assumed that the steps work for other environments as well.
1) Many Linux distributions already have Yakuake in their repositoriesSo look there first in Arch is installed with the command
sudo pacman -S yakuake
And surely in Ubuntu and derivatives with:
sudo apt-get install yakuake
In case you haven't found it, you have to go to Yakuake at KDE-Look.org and download the corresponding file for your desktop environment. At this point, the normal thing is that it is for version 4 of KDE. Then, you have to unzip the file and follow the README instructions to install it. It is very simple.
2) Once it has been installed properly, we will have to run it for the first time. To do this, we go to the Kickoff menu and look for it in the System category - or we type directly "yakuake" in the menu - and click.
3) Immediately, we will see the drop-down terminal on our desktop. If that is not the case, press the F12 key to show or hide it.
4) Of course, the settings can be fine-tuned, to adapt Yakuake to our tastes. To access the options, we have to click on the arrow pointing down, in the lower right corner. Doing so will open a menu, from which we can go to Yakuake's preferences. Among them, we find the following sections:
Here we set the size, position, etc.
The behavior section.
The appearance can be changed with skins (available via download).
5) Now it's time to add this program at startup, to always have it available. I don't know the method used in Gnome, but in KDE let's go to System Preferences, to category System Administration, Startup and Shutdown.
6) In the next window, we give "Add program". We select Yakuake from the list, or write the name directly, and we accept.
Quick and easy, right? If you have followed these steps correctly, you will already have Yakuake working normally on your system.
Welcome to the blog 😀
In fact, Yakuake I've been using it for a loooong time… when I used Gnome I used Guake, with KDE I use Yakuake, it's an essential application for me 😀
Good tutorial, detailed, very well explained 😉
You go slowly huh? It will be the age, which already made another post does nothing.
Yes? uff ... well yes, I'm slow HAHAHA ... it must be all the things that I have in my head 🙂
Curious syntax.
Thanks for the welcome. I would have already sent you some more article to know that you could collaborate on the blog, but I had not found out, haha. At the moment I am putting some tutorials that I published on my blog at the time, but I will do more.
A greeting.
Well you know hahaha, you are more than welcome to continue collaborating, this is a family ... not a dictatorship HAHAHAHA !!!
Lately I post messages and XDD does not appear!
You already know they have you deep.
Anyway, in moderation, none of you is coming out.
There is another message from you in this news, but you commented on the first image ... so it does not appear here. If you click on it, you will see it, haha.
A greeting.
Ahh ok, I was saying XDDD
I had always used Konsole, but now that I tried Yakuake I found it much more practical, especially that it runs in the background so that I can call it when needed. Very useful.
Your tutoring is appreciated.
There is no reason, the truth is that it is very useful. A greeting.
Yakuake, love, konversation and choqok is the first thing I install and I add it to the system startup super cool and useful tools.
What is that of love? Because the name already throws me back
it must be amarok XD
Or AppArmor, haha.
No. Not Amarok, not AppArmor. It's Love, one of the KDE Toys programs. More information:
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Kdetoys/amor
http://docs.kde.org/stable/es/kdetoys/amor/amor-themes.html
Well, you already have to be childish to put that little name on a program
You have to be shortsighted to think that Spanish is the only language in the world. Love is the acronym for Amusic MJesus Of Resources. It is a simple coincidence.
Well man but you already know that if you think in Spanish the name is childish 100%
This is you?
http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/14417732/Instalar-y-configurar-Yakuake-en-KDE.html
because if you are not he has blatantly copied you
Well no, it's not me. In fact, I think that this user is no longer the first time that he catches articles from this blog ...
Please look at the license for this site and what links to this article, so blatantly copy nothing (no matter how awful it is).
That's right, if basically nothing happens.
This is what is in the footer:
Attention: Unless otherwise indicated, the site's license is Creative Commons Attribution 2.5, by which you are allowed to copy, modify, communicate and distribute the content of this article, in whole or in part, and publish or disseminate it in any another website or communication medium, as long as it includes or cites (1) the name of this website, (2) permanent link to this document, (3) name of the author, and (4) the same distribution license .
Now, as always ... almost nobody (not to be absolute) fulfills it as it should be ¬_¬
At the end it puts the source, I imagine that as long as they put the source there is no problem right?
It's what your license says, so yes, no problem 🙂
It is clarified that you must cite not only the link, but the name of the source as well as the author, and this has rarely (in fact, never that I remember) been like this.
I put the link later when I saw it and put the link was not
Hello, thanks for the posts that are helping me a lot
I know it is an old entry, but I just saw it since I just installed it (I did the steps you say before reading this), but I have the problem that when starting I always see yakuake displayed.
Is there a way to avoid it?
It's been a long time but certain things remain more or less the same. The problem you mention is due to the fact that it starts twice, so I would, firstly, check the configuration of the applications that you have programmed to auto-start with startup (from the preferences panel). If you see that there are two Yakuake entries, delete one - or both - and see what happens. In case you delete both and then Yakuake does not start, try adding it again at startup to see if that will achieve the desired result. A greeting.