Program Request: 'yakuake' alternative

[benplaut]

in the Universe repos lies a usefull program called Yakuake - it is a pop-down terminal similar to those found in Quake and Doom.

with my very limited scripting experience, i've run into several brick walls trying to make an alternative. Although i'm not a coder, it seems that it should be a relatively simple task, possibly just a compilation of Alltray, devilspie, and a bit of clever working with minimizing and re-opening windows (my brick wall).

anyone know how to make something like that? (animations, etc like those in Yakuake are pointless, btw)

thanks,
Ben

[cwaldbieser]

in the Universe repos lies a usefull program called Yakuake - it is a pop-down terminal similar to those found in Quake and Doom.

with my very limited scripting experience, i've run into several brick walls trying to make an alternative. Although i'm not a coder, it seems that it should be a relatively simple task, possibly just a compilation of Alltray, devilspie, and a bit of clever working with minimizing and re-opening windows (my brick wall).

anyone know how to make something like that? (animations, etc like those in Yakuake are pointless, btw)

thanks,
Ben

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do. You didn't really expalin why you are making an alternative, and I am not exactly sure from the Yakuake home page what differentiates it from other terminal emulators.

[benplaut]

pretty much, how would i have a program open, then minimize (not showing on the tasklist or pager), on a key command, using to command to toggle the visibility.

i'm not really sure if it's easily possible, but i'm hoping ;)

[cwaldbieser]

pretty much, how would i have a program open, then minimize (not showing on the tasklist or pager), on a key command, using to command to toggle the visibility.

I'm not really sure if it's easily possible, but i'm hoping ;)

Well, in KDE, you can use the "dcop" command line utility to control the behavior of different KDE apps via shell scripts, so you could use KHotKeys to link a key command to a script that alternatively minimizes and hides a program, then maximizes and shows it. You can play around with the "kdcop" GUI to get a feel of what you can do with it.

Not sure if that is the kind of thing you are looking for...