Guake User Documentation

Welcome to the official Guake User Documentation.

Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment. Guake’s style of window is based on a famous FPS game, and one of its goals is to be easy to reach and developer friendly.

Main Features

• Lightweight

• Simple Easy and Elegant

• Smooth integration of terminal into GUI

• Appears when you call and disappears once you are done by pressing a predefined hotkey (F12 by

  default)

• Compiz transparency support

• Multi tab

• Plenty of color palettes

• Quick Open in your favorite text editor with a click on a file name (with line number support)

• Customizable hotkeys for tab access, reorganization, background transparency, font size,…

• Extremely configurable

• Configure Guake startup by running a bash script when Guake starts

• Multi-monitor support (open on a specified monitor, open on mouse monitor)

• Save terminal content to file

• Open URL to your browser

Guake Documentation

• User Manual
  • What is Guake?
  • Guake 3 Features
  • Installing Guake
  • Command Line Arguments
  • D-Bus Interface
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • GTK 3 Port
• Project information
  • History of the Project
  • Guake Change Log
  • License
• Contributing to Guake
  • Basic Details
  • Release Procedure
  • Setting up the development environment
  • Hacking Guake
  • Help for Package maintainers

Useful links

• Source Code available on GitHub.

• Official Homepage: http://guake-project.org

• Online Documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs.

• If you are not a developer, you can still contribute to Guake by

  improving its translations in your language. Guake users are welcome to support Weblate in providing this service for free for OpenSource Projects.

Important note: Do NOT use the domain guake.org, it has been registered by someone outside the team. We cannot be held responsible for the content on that web site.