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 Yakuake is a "Quake" style terminal.
"What the heck is that?", you ask. Well, a Quake-style terminal is a terminal that is completely hidden until you press a special key; in this case the F12 key. Pressing F12 makes the terminal drop down from the top of the screen. Pressing it again makes it disapear again. This may not sound world changing but for anyone who has played games like Quake, Half-Life and Doom know this is way a terminal was meant to be.
I found out about Yakuake when trolling the Ubuntu forums. The description of a Quake-style terminal was something that just I had to have; after all I was a big fan of all first person shooters and fully recognized the usability of this kind of terminal.
Open the Adept Package Manager, search fora nd install yakuake. If Adept can't find it try enabling the deb and deb-source edgy universe repositories.
Once installed you can launch it in the Systems menu.
Make Yakuake autostart:
Open up your home folder; make sure you can see your hidden files.
Navigate to the .kde/Autostart folder and create a new text file: yakuake.
Paste this in the file:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/yakuake
Start up your new Yakuake Terminal and press F12.
~/.kde/Autostart/
chmod +x yakuake
Next time you start Ubuntu Yakuake will be running. You just need to press F12 to access it.
To configure it you can right click on the Yakuake screen and use the menu.
The size of the window and other settings can be accessed by clicking the small down arrow at the bottom right of the screen.
Have fun with it!
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