Guake is very fast while stable enough for using! It’s the excelent quqke like drop-down terminal for gnome.

I used yakuake on KDE. It’s professional but a bit slow. I used tilda also on gnome. But unfortunately, there are too many bugs. Then after I find Guake, I am happy.

Guake is invoked with a single keystroke (F12 as default), and hidden by pressing the same keystroke again. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake and OpenArena which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.

There are three features that I like very much:
1) Fast. It’s for improving productivity, so the fast the better.
2) Stable. It has bugs. But from my experience of using Guake, It never crash.
3) It does not have a lot of function now. But the functions in 0.4.1 is enough for regular use. I can make it full screen by F11. I can create tabs by Ctrl+Shift+T. I can change tabs by keystroke.

Transparent background is cool. But efficiency is better. A screenshot of my style:

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