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winchendonsprings
Asked: 2012-02-25 16:42:52 +0800 CST

Drop down terminal as smooth as gnome-shell's 'looking glass'

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Is there a drop down terminal as smooth as gnome-shell's 'looking glass' that has a normal bash shell?

Gnome-shell's looking glass (alt+f2 then lg then enter) is so smooth. I'd like to see a simple gnome-terminal session in a drop down that smooth.

I know you can smooth drop down Tilda, but, well, it flashes and it's not that smooth. I dislike Guake's excessive ui chrome and yukake is outta place. Any other solutions? Has anyone taken the 'looking glass' code and baked a gnome-terminal into it?

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  1. Best Answer

    There's a new GNOME Shell extension that makes exactly what you need!

    It's called Drop Down Terminal. It's compatible with GNOME Shell 3.6 (and older versions as far as I know). enter image description here

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  2. Go with Guake terminal. It's easy to customize, and works like a charm.

    Look for it in the Software Centre.

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  3. Try Tilda, even though all the features aren't enabled out of the box, the preference editor lets you adjust everything easily, you can adjust the animation speed rates, width, size, fading, etc.

    EDIT: Also, it only blinks if you don't have compositing enabled system-wide. It runs as a background process underneath EVERYTHING even TTY's

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  4. Try this one: https://github.com/zzrough/gs-extensions-drop-down-terminal

    It is smooth and nice. It hasn't got tabs, but you can achieve simillar effect by using byobu: https://launchpad.net/byobu

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  5. yet another drop-down terminal with some unique features https://github.com/linvinus/AltYo

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  6. There is a tool which can be used to add "drop-down" feature to ANY application: https://github.com/shivams/ddan

    I use it to drop-down my gnome-terminal (and hence obviating guake). It feels smooth on Unity.

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