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On the recordRead 9 Oct 202619 facts
Guake
Guake · founded 2007
Plans and prices
Guake
Free
No paid plans stated
Read 9 Oct 2026 · guake.github.io
On the record
- Automation
- The documentation says Guake makes its major features available over D-Bus and supports command-line control.guake.readthedocs.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Color palettes
- The homepage says Guake includes more than 130 predefined color palettes.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Guake can open detected file names in editors such as Visual Studio Code, Atom, or Sublime Text, including parsing compiler and test output to locate a line.guake.readthedocs.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Links and search
- Guake can detect URLs in terminal output for Ctrl-click opening and offers context-menu actions to open links or search selected text on the web.guake.readthedocs.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Multi-monitor
- Guake can open on the monitor under the mouse or on a dedicated screen.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- On Wayland, the documentation says the hotkey may need to be configured in the window manager’s global settings.guake.readthedocs.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Guake is a multilingual, top-down terminal for GNOME, inspired by the terminal used in Quake.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Project history
- The homepage says Guake was originally written by Gabriel Falcão in 2007 and has since become an open source project with many contributors.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Quick access
- A predefined hotkey shows or hides the terminal so users can run commands and return to their previous task.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Quick Open
- Clicking a file name in terminal output can open it in a text editor, including at a specific line and column when the editor supports it.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Scripting API
- Yesguake.github.io · read 20 Sep 2026
- Split panes
- Yesguake.github.io · read 20 Sep 2026
- Startup configuration
- Guake can start automatically at login and run a script on launch to configure tabs.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- The homepage directs users to the GitHub Issues page to report bugs and welcomes code and translation contributions.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- linuxguake.github.io · read 20 Sep 2026
- Tabs
- It supports multiple named tabs, with names set automatically from the running command or customized by the user.guake.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
