Idea #9274: Quick Terminal

Written by doughy the 30 May 08 at 16:44. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

Advanced users of Ubuntu like to use the terminal for many tasks. Often these users leave a terminal open on the desktop, and must switch to it when they want to move from a graphical program to run a command. It's sometimes a hassle to have to find, click, type, click back...

I propose that a "Quick Terminal" be created. When the user hits a certain keyboard shortcut, the desktop fades and a terminal comes up with immediate keyboard focus. The user can then enter a command (or many) and then quickly jump back to the regular desktop. When the user returns to the terminal that is in the background, it remembers everything that has been typed before.

This would create a seamless transition from the normal GUI desktop into the terminal world. Having both the GUI and terminal tightly woven will allow advanced users to very quickly accomplish their tasks in the most efficient way possible.

The quick terminal could be integrated with stuff like Compiz so that the animation of going from desktop to terminal could be changed.

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Primož Papič wrote on the 30 May 08 at 16:59

It already exists Tilda for Gnome and Yakuake for KDE...
they both work with F12.
0 from me...
But I hear that Tilda has quite few problems, but Yakuake works just fine for me...

davim wrote on the 30 May 08 at 18:10

I use stjerm http://getdeb.net/app/stjerm it works perfectly with Gnome and with or without compiz :) (havent tested in KDE yet)

and its a lightweight :)

Squiggle wrote on the 30 May 08 at 18:17

Tilda in 8.04 is working fine for me. Although I did have to play with the Compiz settings manager to get focus-prevention disabled for that window.

Eldmannen wrote on the 30 May 08 at 20:41

Pretty cool idea.

broomfighter wrote on the 31 May 08 at 00:13

what's wrong with tty(if that's the correct term)?
ctrl+alt+f1

jhoger wrote on the 31 May 08 at 02:54

Invert the whole thing and go Ion/WMII/Ratpoison. I run everything from the keyboard...

glibik wrote on the 31 May 08 at 11:50

Already done!
See what broomfighter wrote.

I use it on a regular basis.

Vadim P. wrote on the 31 May 08 at 12:40

Or AWN terminal applet?

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