Guake 3 Features

TBD: Long description of each feature

Single Hotkey terminal

TBD:

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

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

Auto-start

Guake can now (>=3.1) starts automatically on GNOME startup.

Advanced Tab Support

Guake has several modes available to manage tab. You can let guake automatically rename the tab or give you own name.

Color Palettes

Thanks to the Guake community, a huge number of Terminal palettes are provided out of the box.

GTK Theme

Guake allows you to choose a different GTK theme than your environment.

Note

You need to restart Guake after changing the GTK theme.

Quick Open, hyperlink and Search on web

Guake automatically finds URL printed in your terminal and allow you to click on it using [Ctrl]+click. Many other terminals, if not all, does that already.

Quick-Open

Guake is also able to find out file names and open it in your favorite code editor, such as Visual Studio Code, Atom or SublimText.

Guake brings this to much more, by automatically parsing output of popular system commands such as gcc, Python’s traceback or pytest report, and allowing you to automatically open the file at the correct line number. Guake is even able to find the Python function name automatically when used with pytest.

Even if Guake cannot parse the output, you can still ask him to open a wanted file path displayed in your terminal, provided the file exists at this path. Simply select the full path and click using the [Ctrl]+click, or with the contextual menu on right click.

Contextual menu

Right click also displays “Search on web” (if you have selected a text) and “Open link” (if the text under the cursor is a URL or if the selected text is a URL).

Guake also supports HTML-like anchor with special characters such as:

echo -e '\e]8;;http://example.com\aThis is a link\e]8;;\a'

HTML-like anchors

You may need a recent version of the VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) component in you system (vte >= 0.50).

Multi Monitor

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

Hook points

TBD: Configure Guake startup by running a bash script when Guake starts

Save Terminal Content

TBD: Save terminal content to file

Custom Commands

TBD

DBus commands

The major features of guake are available on DBus.

Tab UUID

Tabs are uniquely identified with a UUID. Each terminal receives this UUID in the following environment varialbe: GUAKE_TAB_UUID. It can be used to rename the tab from the command line using --tab-index 3c542bc1-7c99-4e73-8d37-e08281bd592c.

Per-directory .guake.yml file

If there is a file named .guake.yml in the current working directory of the shell associated with a tab, Guake will try to read the title from there. The current format is very simple and it will probably change in the future:

title: "My Great Project"