{"id":9809,"date":"2020-02-18T16:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2025-06-15T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T09:29:35","slug":"install-guake-37-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/02\/install-guake-37-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Drop Down Terminal Guake 3.10 in Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9810\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest drop-down terminal Guake 3.10 in <strong>Ubuntu 18.04<\/strong>, <strong>Ubuntu 20.04<\/strong>, and <strong>Ubuntu 22.04.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Guake\/guake\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guake<\/a> is an open-source drop-down terminal for Gnome desktop. While the software in Ubuntu main repository is old, the latest Guake 3.7 was released with following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add tab selection popover in each notebook<\/li>\n<li>Add fullscreen hide tabbar option<\/li>\n<li>Set custom colors for each terminal tab.<\/li>\n<li>Add <code>--select-terminal<\/code> and <code>--selected-terminal<\/code> options to Guake CLI<\/li>\n<li>Adds an option to display only the last directory on the current path as the tab name.<\/li>\n<li>Reworked the tab name selection to use a drop-down menu.<\/li>\n<li>Unfullscreen through D-Bus interface, as well as through CLI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_9811\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9811\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9811\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-split-terminal-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Guake Split Terminal Screen\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-split-terminal-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-split-terminal-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-split-terminal-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-split-terminal.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guake Split Terminal Screen<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>How to Install Guake in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p><b>For<\/b>\u00a0<b>Ubuntu 24.04 and higher<\/b>, the latest Guake 3.10 is available in system repositorry. Simply open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt update; sudo apt install guake<\/pre>\n<p>Linux Uprising team maintains a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~linuxuprising\/+archive\/ubuntu\/guake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PPA repository<\/a> that contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open <u>terminal<\/u> and run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising\/guake<\/pre>\n<p>Type user password, no asterisk feedback, when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9812\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-ppa-unofficial-600x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-ppa-unofficial-600x107.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-ppa-unofficial-450x80.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-ppa-unofficial.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Then run command to install the drop-down terminal application via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install guake<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, launch Guake Preferences from system application menu, configure the keyboard shortcuts, and other preferences, and then you can either use the top-right indicator applet, or the shortcut key to drop-down the terminal from top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-prefs.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46346\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-prefs-700x461.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-prefs-700x461.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-prefs-300x198.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-prefs-768x506.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-prefs-1320x870.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/guake-prefs.webp 1397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If an old version was installed previously, you may first kill Guake process or just reboot your machine to make it well working.<\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the PPA, simply go to Software &amp; Updates -&gt; Other Software, then remove the repository line.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9813\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/remove-guakeppa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/remove-guakeppa.png 480w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/remove-guakeppa-450x243.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest drop-down terminal Guake 3.10 in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 22.04. Guake is an open-source drop-down terminal for Gnome desktop. While the software in Ubuntu main repository is old, the latest Guake 3.7 was released with following changes: Add tab selection popover in each notebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1882,1883],"class_list":["post-9809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-drop-down-terminal","tag-guake-split-terminal"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809","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=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}