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# Guake Terminal: A Customizable Linux Terminal for Power Users [Inspired by an FPS Game]
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/guake-terminal/
- Published: 2021-03-02T11:12:45.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-02T11:12:49.000Z
- Author: Ankush Das
- Tags: #Import 2022-12-26 08:27

***Brief: Quickly access your terminal that is customizable and powerful for a variety of users with Guake Terminal emulator.***

## Guake Terminal: Top-Down Terminal for GNOME Desktop

![Guake terminal](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2021/02/guake-terminal-1.png)

[Guake](http://guake-project.org/?ref=itsfoss.com) is a terminal emulator that’s tailored for GNOME desktop with a top-down design.

It was originally inspired from the terminal seen in an FPS game ([Quake](https://quake.bethesda.net/en?ref=itsfoss.com)). Even though it was initially built as a quick and accessible terminal, it is much more than that.

Guake terminal offers a ton of features, and customizable options. Here, I’ll highlight the key features of the terminal along with the process of getting it installed on any of your Linux distribution.

## Features of Guake Terminal

![guake terminal](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2021/02/guake-terminal.jpg)

- Keyboard Shortcut (**F12**) to launch the terminal anywhere as an overlay
- Guake terminal runs in the background for persistent access
- Ability to split tabs horizontally and vertically
- Change the default shell from available options (if any)
- Re-alignment option
- Change appearance of the terminal from a wide selection of color palettes
- Ability to save the content of the terminal to a file using GUI option
- Toggle Full screen option when needed
- You can easily save the tabs or open new tabs when needed
- Ability to restore tabs
- Option to configure and learn new keyboard shortcuts to quickly access the terminal and perform tasks
- Change colors of specific tabs
- Easily rename the tabs to quickly access what you already need
- Quick open feature to open text files directly from your terminal on your favorite editor with a click
- Ability to add your own command or scripts when starting up or showing up the Guake terminal
- Multi-monitor support

![guake preferences](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2021/02/guake-preferences.jpg)

Just to have fun, you can do a great deal of things. But, I also believe that power users can make use of the features to make their terminal experience easier and more productive.

For the time I used it to test out a few things and write this article, I felt like I was summoning the terminal to be honest. So, I definitely find it cool!

## Installing Guake Terminal on Linux

![guake terminal 2](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2021/02/guake-terminal-2.png)

**Guake Terminal is available through the default repositories on Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch**.

You can follow its official instructions to know the commands you can use or if you’re using an Ubuntu-based distro, simply type in:

```
sudo apt install guake
```

Do note that you may not get the latest version using this method. So, if you want to have the latest version, you can opt to use the PPA by [Linux Uprising](https://www.linuxuprising.com/?ref=itsfoss.com) to get the latest version:

```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/guake
sudo apt update
sudo apt install guake
```

In either case, you can also get it using [Pypi](https://pypi.org/?ref=itsfoss.com) or from source by referring to the [official documentation](https://guake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/installing.html?ref=itsfoss.com) or the [GitHub page](https://github.com/Guake/guake?ref=itsfoss.com).

[Guake Terminal](https://github.com/Guake/guake?ref=itsfoss.com)

What do you think about Guake Terminal? Do you think of it as a useful terminal emulator? Anything similar that you know of?

Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments down below.