iTerm2 comes with a robust find-on-page feature. This gives you an always-available terminal (like Visor, Guake, or Yakuake) at your fingertips. You can choose to have the hotkey open a dedicated window.
The "Quake" drop-down console will appear on the top half of the screen. Quake mode in Windows Terminal allows you to quickly open a new terminal instance from any app in Windows by pressing the Win + ` keyboard shortcut. Another great thing about the app is that it is fully open-sourced, so anyone can contribute. Thanks to profiles, you can have instances of Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux running in tabs. It comes with tabs, a GPU accelerated DirectWrite/DirectX-based text rendering engine, profiles, and more.
F12 also toggles it off the desktop.Windows Terminal is a modern terminal software for command-line users that has plenty of features you won't find in the classic Command Prompt and PowerShell tools. It can be launched in fullscreen mode, but that’s not the default. Simple! Fire up a shell terminal and type (as root) the following command:Īfterwards, the F12 key calls up Guake. This could be the best Linux desktop distribution of the year. If you’ve used Yakuake, you’ll know how to access Guake after installation.īy the way, Guake is installed by default on Deepin 15 alpha 2, which I wrote about at Deepin 15.
The Guake package is in the default repository, so this will be very easy.īecause it does not have support for split screens, Guake is not has advanced, in that respect, as Terminator, but it’s still a very good terminal emulator. In this article, you’ll see how to install and use Guake, another nice shell terminal, on Fedora 23. Recently I wrote about how to install Terminator shell terminal on Ubuntu 15.10.