Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

Hello Devs!
I have a request for a piece of software which I have not been able to port or install...

I want an drop down terminal for N900/Maemo (Not Easy Deb).

Guake, Yakuake or Tilda.

They all are fairly similar.
Guake is my "Go To" terminal emulator or Linux , I'd love it on my N900....

When I try to install from .deb or repo (add Debian repo's) I get an error for some libfont - Classes with a Maemo lib...


Is anyone able to help with this?
There are ARMEL codes avail in the Deb repo, but cannot install.... :(

All three have the same lib class.

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

Mostly the ancient maemo libs prevent the install of all the apps from even the previous old-stable Debian.
Just use <Ctrl>-<Caps>-x to start the Terminal.

There are applications in the repos to remap hardware buttons to custom actions.

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

What does this "drop-down-terminal" mean?

I tried googling for Guake/Yakuake/Tilda but could not understand the description, there's some definite way it is invoked, some kind of animation or something?

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

@juiceme just like FPS shooters command console, showing on Tilda (~) key ;)
Showing console window on half of screen with smooth drop down animation

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

The terminal remains loaded in memory, hidden. You press a key, and it slides down from the top of the screen, hence the "drop down" term. The remains-loaded part is what typically makes it smoother and faster than just having a key binding to launch your more typical terminal of choice. Between those two features it makes it fairly convenient.

On the N900, the closest thing I use is proximityd (or whatever it's called - it lets you configure both the proximity sensor and the camera key to perform different actions) to map launching an X-Term with the half-press of the camera key. It's pretty damn convenient minus the occasional accidental trigger (which sometimes gets repeated so you flood the phone with 2-4...in rare instances way more - X-Term windows). I've never used drop terminals but on the N900 I love that as a setup.

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

I have used to use drop-down terminals. Nowadays I work almost solely on terminal and I do not have any reason to ever hide it. But I really understand what you are asking.

One more you didn't mention: Yeahconsole [https://github.com/rduplain/yeahconsole]. It is simpler than these others (no tabs, no configs).

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Yeahconsole is using system's xterm (osso-xterm is not working)
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Guake is missing: python-vte
Maemo's vte (version 0.16.14) doesn't have python bindings. Newer vte needs new glib (not issue) and new gtk (serial issue).
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yakuake needs kdelibs. Seems a big deal (I don't even tried)
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tilda needs libconfuse-dev (trivial, not yet in extras)
tilda-1.1.8 needs libvte-2.90-dev

tilda-0.09.2 I got this running :)

It is using old libvte.
Issues
*It will not write configuration file if not used configuration wizard and 'OK'-button, but this button is out of the screen. (workaround copy config from another computer)
*pressing letters gives UPPERCASE and with shift lowercase (this is known issue of that libvte)
*transparency is not working
*it is fullscreen (no matter of height,width)
*pos_x, pos_y is not working (as it is fullscreen)
*it is not totally fullscreen: system's bar is covering it
*changing background color is not working
*animation is not working
*If there are too many tabs, most left one can't be accessed (because of the system's menu, clock, battery etc)

These (and variants) can be used as a key:
key = "Control+p"
key = "None+p"

These (and variants) can NOT be used as a key:
key = "None+å"
key = "Control+Shift+p"
key = "Shift+p"

Additionally there are these:
Ctrl-Shift-T (New Tab),
Ctrl-Shift-PageUp (Next Tab), (can't be pressed with default layout)
Ctrl-Shift-PageDown (Prev Tab) (can't be pressed with default layout)

Do you think you are still interested in about it?

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

That is awesome news!
(also, thanks for the KB shortcut for X-Term).

I tried to get Tilda to install, just a basic apt-get install. Didnt want to force anything extra.
I'm an old gaming nerd (older quake etc).. ~

Edit: ProximityD = ShortcutD
Thanks for that, I will set it up now! :)

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

That is brilliant.
Thanks so much for the effort and work involved!
Are you able to add this to the repo?
Sorry for the delayed post :(
I can try grab a config or maybe we can build a generic Maemo/N900 config which will work well :)

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

There are now tilda on extras-devel (and everything it needs).
*If there are no ~/.tilda/config configuration-wizard will start when tilda starts
*Configuration-wizard will now fit on screen (I made little tuning+fullscreen).
*No menu icon, start terminal and run tilda
*tilda -h for help
*tilda -C for Configuration-wizard
*Many of the configs are not working (as I wrote before)
*Our libvte is somehow broken and default text is UPPERCASED, which is show-stopper for terminal (I don't have time to fix libvte, but I'm interested about fixed version)
*No way to scroll (I'm not sure about oldskool shift+pageUp, which is handy as mouse-wheel-scrolling on N900)

*If there are too many tabs, most left one can't be accessed (because of the system's menu, clock, battery etc)
-> Change place of tabs e.g. to the bottom.

Video: http://youtu.be/TxAvhgwIq5Y

Re: Request: GUAKE: Drop down Terminal
 

Well done!

It would be great to have a drop down terminal to assign to an hardware key (for example the middle pressure of the camera button)

I spent 99% of my day in front of yakuake or guake. Obtain the same shell friendly experience into the N900 would be like: "..hey, welcome home!"

The caps lock problem with libvte is the same present in many other apps like midori... a real trouble.

I hope someone would take care to patch that lib and solve the point.
Last year thp patched a few things in git, maybe he has some idea about what is going wrong.
https://gitorious.org/community-ssu/...d57eea84ddae04

...or maybe he would take a look ;)