Comments on: YeahConsole: a dropdown Linux terminal that’s better than Tilda

By: Mr. Byte

Mr. Byte — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:33:19 +0000

I’ve used Yakuake exclusively, and I’ve had nary a problem with it.

I am, however, looking for something more minimalist, so I thought yeahconsole would be the thing for me.

We’ll see.

By: sil

sil — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:31:40 +0000

New laptop. Now using yakuake, which has so far been annoying in that it doesn’t always want to allow me to copy from it; if I select text in yakuake and then middle-click to paste into Firefox, it doesn’t work. If I right-click Copy the text in yakuake and then ctrl-V paste into Firefox, it doesn’t work. I thought we’d sorted out all this clipboard shit years ago?

By: Apoorv Khatreja

Apoorv Khatreja — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:35:29 +0000

How can you hate Yakuake? Its a part of my life as much as is my web browser, my music player and my feed reader. It intergrates awesomely with my work environment.

By: ecadre

ecadre — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:01:15 +0000

Thanks for putting me onto Yaquake, very useful.

I’m a KDE user of course…

By: Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (mjjzf)

Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (mjjzf) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:35:15 +0000

Aqtually,
I found that the site with YeahWM - of which Yeahconsole is a part - is interesting.
=> http://phrat.de/
It seems to be an interesting WM - and yes, I am probably minimalist, when it comes to that.

By: rajazz

rajazz — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:44:11 +0000

I have organized the configuration in a different file called .Xyeahconsole instead of .Xresources
cause it has a lot of stuff and it’s convenient to keep it apart. 8)

Take a look (and leave comments please) …

http://www.gnulinuxargentina.com.ar/foro/viewtopic.php?t=86

if you don’t understand a word, i can translate it 4 u ;)
Thanks, nice people!

By: Leo S

Leo S — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:45:03 +0000

1 and 4 Yes you can set height/width
2. No way to disable the bar as far as I know. There does need to be some place to put the settings buttons after all. Unless you want to configure the thing from a text file…
3. Why not combine them? I suppose at the time it was just easier to leave them separate, since all the konsole settings are from the konsole part and really have nothing to do with yakuake.
This has improved somewhat with the current version(2.9.2) though. Right clicking on the console will give you the option of setting the profile for the terminal, instead of being called settings. And no more of this save as default BS as in the old ones. Could still be better if it was integrated into the main settings area though.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:02:18 +0000

There is also

yeahconsole*restart:1

which will auto restart it. even better would probably be if it hid itself on restart…

By: Gubbeper

Gubbeper — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:44:15 +0000

Ha! That “click to install on Ubuntu” thing is so cool! I’ve never seen that before. That, together with the rest of your instructions, made me try it out. Thanks! :)

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:06:09 +0000

Yakuake is great - thanks for making me aware of it!

I found it fairly easy to start using it - as a now-ex konsole user, I could just click ‘use konsole settings’ and it imported all my colour/font settings etc. Setting the width and height was straightforward enough, but it’s pretty bad usability-wise that it has two menus, accessible via different means…

My only (minor) complaint is that the button to open a new tab isn’t quite big enough for my liking.