{"id":3005,"date":"2014-02-13T03:45:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T03:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2014-02-13T03:45:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T03:45:30","slug":"launch-xfce4-terminal-in-quake-style-drop-down-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/launch-xfce4-terminal-in-quake-style-drop-down-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Launch Xfce4 Terminal in Quake-style Drop-down Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xfce-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xfce-logo.png\" alt=\"xfce4 drop-down terminal\" width=\"270\" height=\"215\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you may know, <b>Xfce4 terminal supports the Quake style drop-down mode since version 0.6<\/b>. Just a parameter <code>--drop-down<\/code> will start xfce4-terminal just like quake, yakuake, or tilda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/xfce-terminal-drop-down-style.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/xfce-terminal-drop-down-style.jpg\" alt=\"Xfce4 Terminal Quake Style\" width=\"580\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/xfce-terminal-drop-down-style.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/xfce-terminal-drop-down-style-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is advised to bind this feature to a shortcut in the keyboard preferences. Below steps will teach you how:<\/p>\n<p>1. Open xfce4-setting-manager from Application menu or Alt+F2 Application Finder box.<\/p>\n<p>2. Click on the <i>Keyboard<\/i> icon under Hardware section.<\/p>\n<p>3. Under <b>Application Shortcuts<\/b> tab, click on the <b>Add<\/b> button and type in the command box <code>xfce4-terminal --drop-down<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/xfce-terminal-drop-down.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/xfce-terminal-drop-down.png\" alt=\"Xfce terminal Quake style\" width=\"468\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/xfce-terminal-drop-down.png 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/xfce-terminal-drop-down-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. Click on OK and set a keyboard shortcut in next window. <\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;re able to press the keyboard shortcut to launch a drop-down Xfce4 terminal. Click the button at right-bottom to open the preferences dialog and edit the width, height, opacity, duration and more!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, Xfce4 terminal supports the Quake style drop-down mode since version 0.6. Just a parameter &#8211;drop-down will start xfce4-terminal just like quake, yakuake, or tilda. It is advised to bind this feature to a shortcut in the keyboard preferences. Below steps will teach you how: 1. Open xfce4-setting-manager from Application menu or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[1028,224],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-xfce","tag-xfce-terminal-quake-style","tag-xfce4"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}