Drop-down menu style a la Yakuake #8362

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opened 2026-01-31 01:27:32 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @TLCPlusPlus on GitHub (May 20, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Some users who cannot have multiple monitors due to money or hardware restrictions would benefit from a drop-down as it can show and hide itself from 1 key press for easy and quick command input & output needs.

Terminal already has a tabbed interface and is skinnable, so all that would really need to be added is the drop-down function. Almost all Linux Desktop Environments have some form of implementation of this, so there is a want for this. Would be useful and neat if Terminal could bring this to Windows users too.

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Official Yakuake Package Description

Add a settings.json setting to allow drop-down feature via a configurable key bind. I recommend either F12 (Yakuake default) or Grave (`) key as default.

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Reference: starred/terminal#8362