Groovy Terminal

6 05 2007

I have been a Yakuake user and fan for as long as I can remember. Seeing as I use the terminal roughly 75% of the time while using my computer, tabbing back and forth between either Yakuake tabs or Konsole tabs gets to be tedious after a while. Well, Sho_ and gang over at KDE have totally kicked arse with a new 2.8 Beta release. The new one still has all of the tabs, however each tab can have as many split windows as your eyes can handle. For an idea of what this looks like, take a look at the image below (click for larger image).

Yakuake split windows

If you are using Kubuntu, building this package is a breeze. Save the package into a separate directory (~/downloads is what I use) and issue the following commands in the terminal (Konsole):
cd ~/downloads #change to the directory you downloaded it to
tar -xvjf yakuake-2.8-beta1.tar.bz2
cd yakuake-2.8-beta1
./configure && make && sudo make install

NOTE: If the package does not configure properly, then you may need to install kdelibs-dev from the repositories.

To run it, simply go to KMenu->System->Yakuake.


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4 responses to “Groovy Terminal”

6 05 2007
Paul Walsh (06:11:18) :
   (Using Konqueror Konqueror 3.5 on Kubuntu Linux Kubuntu Linux)

Someone mentioned on the #yakuake freenode channel that you probably need kdelibs-dev installed on Kubuntu as well. I think this is the case so I thought I would just pop a note here.

6 05 2007
nixternal (09:41:56) :
   (Using Konqueror Konqueror 3.5 on Kubuntu Linux Kubuntu Linux)

Fixed, thanks for mentioning that.

6 05 2007
Derek Buranen (15:28:54) :
   (Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux)

Is that irssi? If so, how do you get the userlist on the right? Is it a specific theme, if so which?

I am apt-getting yakuake now, thanks for sharing the screenshot.

6 05 2007
nixternal (16:03:51) :
   (Using Konqueror Konqueror 3.5 on Kubuntu Linux Kubuntu Linux)

nicklist.pl on irssi.org

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