HowTo: Drop Down Linux Terminal Console

Are you looking for alternative linux terminal console that offers quite new terminal convenient features?

Here's an alternative linux tool that is available is also available from Fedora repos.

Yakuake - Yet Another Linux Terminal Console

Yakuake, one of the alternative KDE-based linux tool, is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Yakuake runs in background and pops out as dropdown window when called from shortcut keys. Yakuake also utilizes small memory footprints and therefor provide more memory resources to other linux applications. Yakuake customization is being offered from single point,click and release mouse gesture which makes it more convenient and easier to use. Toogle from one shell to another shell child is as easy as pressing key combinations, which comes as one of the application's default settings.

Yakuake also supports theme and skins. Window transparency is also available from this small but powerful linux terminal console. You can change from one color to another background color customization by simply selecting one of the default color schemes that comes from Yakuake linux terminal console.

Yakuake Key Features:

* Smoothly rolls down from the top of your screen
* Tabbed interface
* Configurable dimensions and animation speed
* Skinnable
* Sophisticated DCOP interface

Yakuake Installation
Simply install Yakuake via yum, which downloads about 82K of rpm package installer.

# yum -y install yakuake

Binary Launch

# yakuake

Some keyboard shortcuts that comes with Yakuake default configuration

Shift+Arrow - jumps from available opened linux terminal console
F12 - drops down terminal console

That is all, enjoy.