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Looking for gui or terminal program advice for linux.
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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Not exactly what you're asking for, but have you considered something like this?
https://github.com/Guake/guake
Press a button, terminal drops down. Press it again and it rolls back up to the top out of sight. It's based on how the console worked on Quake. I haven't used it in a while, but my guess is that depending on what tiling WM you're using you'll get different levels of weird interactions with window geometry.
oh thanks. I sorta figured I might get some interesting suggestions. I had not even thought about a hotkey setup.
Just to note, if youre using KDE, use yakuake.
Way more features, customization options, etc, and made for KDE.
thanks. I did grab that and I do like how it works. I got some really good advice from this post.