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I always install Guake. It's a drop-down terminal emulator and it can be heavily configured with hotkeys. I have it pop open/close with one key and I can split the terminal horizontally or vertically as many times as I want with a couple other hotkeys.
It's so ridiculously efficient (as a developer) that I can't stand to not have it installed at this point.
Love my drop down terminal. I use Yakuake.
Once you get used to it, you'll never go back haha
Do you prefer Guake over Yakuake because you use Gnome or other GTK based DE, because of specific features, or because it's what you're used to? Or something else?
I've only used Yakuake (and I'm on KDE) so I'm not familiar with Guake, but I'm curious
I'll be real with you, it's just familiarity. Whenever I'm setting up a new system, I just install Guake and throw my config file at it, so it feels the same as all of my other computers.
I'm sure that Yakuake is great and that all drop-down terminals probably have identical feature sets. However, I'm getting too old and impatient to distro/software hop. I just like my stuff to work and as long as it does, I don't change it.
Concerning DE compatibility though: I run cinnamon on most of my machines and Guake has worked flawlessly for me for years on Cinnamon and Gnome. I've never been a fan of KDE though, so your milage may vary.