I’ve been using Linux in an academic setting for years, but only recently migrated fully to using it as my only operating system at home.

I use the terminal quite often, not as much as some users, but often enough that having to open Konsole all the time and manage it’s windows was a minor small annoyance.

But a floating terminal is such a simple solution and it’s so fun. Pictured here is Yakuake. Press F12 the little window shows up ready to use, no matter where I am, press F12 and it collapses again. I can leave a package compiling, updates running, I can use it with htop or whatever I need. F12, BOOP, terminal.

It’s like a fidget toy.

I’m sure this will not amuse most users, but it’s really fun.

  • Caboose12000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    youve opened my eyes to a brand new way of using the terminal. how does it work on a multi monitor setup? does it always default to opening on primary monitor, or will it pay attention to where hour cursor is or something? can you open 2 or 3 at a time when you have the extra monitors for it? (I will be answering all these questions for myself in a few hours lol just not at my PC rn)

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I basically always have a terminal open, but I use tmux instead of multiple tabs/windows. Drop down terminals never really interested me, because I do a lot of my actual work in the terminal, so a maximized window is way more convenient. Glad it’s working for you, though! I love that Linux has so many different workflows available, everyone can find something that works well for them, no matter how they work. :)

    • braindefragger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Drop down terminals never really interested me, because I do a lot of my actual work in the terminal

      I use tmux

      Heh, okay?

      I think it’s a bit much to assume people are not doing significant work or work cannot be done in a terminal just because it might have keyboard shortcut assigned to it.

      • Caboose12000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        I think they were just saying its more convenient for them to use a maximized terminal, this drop down example is very small in terms of screen real estate

  • barkingspiders@infosec.pubEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    Yakuake for life baby, it’s the best, fully customizable, some really beautiful presets out there. My sweet spot is full screen but with 70ish percent opacity so I can read what’s behind it. Pull up your tutorial or walkthrough or whatever in a browser, hit f12 and goooooo.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    For issuing just a command (often pkill, reboot/poweroff, simple start commands) I usually use Super+r. Otherwise, as I use a tiling WM, switching to an empty workspace takes a tenth of a second and the worst, or I just don’t care where the terminal spawns because it will find a good place anyway.

  • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    On Mint, you can press Ctrl+Alt+T for a terminal window, I use it all the time.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      Pretty sure it’s a Debian family key-binding, so Ubuntu and LMDE also have it. And yeah, I use it all the time.

      I love(d) the drop-down console in Quake-like games but have always preferred my command windows to be floating boxes for whatever reason.

  • SaintWacko@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Yep. It’s amazingly handy. I used to use Guake back when that was a thing. Now I use iterm2 on a MacBook

  • ChaoticNumber@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I used yakuake for years, its excellent out of the box. Recently switched to wezterm together with tdrop, for the same effect.