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Looking for gui or terminal program advice for linux. (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by HubertManne@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Im looking for ways to increase my use of the terminal and so I want to have one around all the time without having to switch tabs. I have seen tiling window managers but I kinda don't want to lose like windows snapping and such. Is there any way to attack a window to the taskbar in kde so that other programs won't overlap it? I basically would like to have like 3 lines of a terminal across the bottom just above the start bar.

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[–] cthulhupunk0@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

oh thanks. I sorta figured I might get some interesting suggestions. I had not even thought about a hotkey setup.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just to note, if youre using KDE, use yakuake.

Way more features, customization options, etc, and made for KDE.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

thanks. I did grab that and I do like how it works. I got some really good advice from this post.