Guake - Quake-style terminal for GNOME
A Quake-style terminal is a drop-down terminal which can be shown/hidden just like the console in Quake (and most of the first-person shooter games out there), using the press of a key (~ in Quake). Guake is a terminal application written in GTK which uses the F12 keyboard shortcut by default to show or hide it.
6 Best Linux Terminal Applications
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Konsole’s User Interface Changes
Konsole is the app that probably almost every KDE developer uses on a daily basis, but there hasn’t been much development on the user interface front during the last releases. Nonetheless some recent changes may be worth blogging about.
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Irssi 0.8.13 released: IRC from console (terminal)
Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.
Greatest features
You might be wondering what makes Irssi such an easy and comfortable client to use:
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Getting Maximum Framebuffer Resolution
Today, I did some research on the interwebs looking for a way to increase the framebuffer resolution. Along the several tips that looked like black magic to me, this is the simplest solution for my taste.
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fttps: A command-line download manager
fttps is a Python-driven console application that periodically checks a text file for links, downloads the file and moves it to a destination. It's a great counterpart to rtorrent or other CLI utilities.
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How-To: Change Console Resolution
The standard size of the console is 80 columns and 25 lines, which is too big if you want to work easily in console and don't even use a desktop environment (or use one but also prefer to do things in console rather than an X terminal). It will also look nicer when booting up the system.
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Shell, terminal, console — the basics
In this article we’d like to present the basic concepts needed to navigate the console world. We are going to find out what a shell is all about, what is a terminal, and what the famous console is actually for.
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