Full-screen, transparent, toggle-able terminal for Ubuntu? (Like Quake/Visor)

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • gridsane
    gridsane over 1 year

    I want to toggle a full-screen transparent terminal on some hotkey, so that when you close it, it just minimizes in the panel/tray but remains loaded in memory.

    For example, Visor on Mac OS X:

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    • Chan-Ho Suh
      Chan-Ho Suh almost 12 years
      Guake, available in the repositories.
    • Scaine
      Scaine almost 12 years
      That's an answer, Chan-Ho, not a comment. This question will remain open unless you make it an answer (or someone else steals your comment to make it an answer, since I was going to recommend Guake too).
    • Drie
      Drie almost 12 years
      Someone did. Hahaha :p
  • gridsane
    gridsane almost 12 years
    thanks =) Before, I tried combine gnome terminal with alltray