urxvt-kuake(1)

✨ NAME ✨

kuake — a kuake-like hotkey terminal, and yes bestie it's literally that girl 💅

So this page is from the urxvt-kuake(1) corner of the RXVT-UNICODE universe, and it's here to explain the whole drop-down-terminal fantasy 🫶

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🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Okay so if you wanna run it straight from the command line, it's giving:

  urxvt -kuake-hotkey F10

And if you're more of a config-file kinda person (iconic behaviour, no notes), you set it like this:

  URxvt.kuake.hotkey: F10

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: it's a very primitive quake-console-like extension 😭 like genuinely primitive, that's not me being mean, that's just the vibe. It was inspired by a description of how the programs kuake and yakuake work — whenever you press a global accelerator key (by default F10), the terminal will show or hide itself. Press that same accelerator key again and it hides or shows it again. It's a toggle, bestie. That's the whole thing. Slay 🔥

Important detail though: initially, the window will not be shown when using this extension. So don't come for me when it doesn't pop up on start — it's not supposed to 👑

Why is this useful? Because sometimes you need a single terminal that is not using any desktop space most of the time, but is quickly available at the press of a key. One terminal. Zero desktop real estate. Maximum convenience. That's main character energy fr fr 💜

Heads up 🎀 the accelerator key is grabbed regardless of any modifiers, so this extension will actually grab a physical key just for this function. Like, the whole physical key. It's committed. No cap.

And if you want a quake-like animation, tell your window manager to do so (fvwm can do it). The extension itself isn't doing the little slidey dance for you — that's your WM's moment to shine ✨

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🎀 Sign-off 🎀

That's the whole page, bestie — urxvt-kuake(1) from the RXVT-UNICODE manual, version 9.31, dated 2023-12-02. Go grab that F10 and live your best drop-down-terminal life 🌈💖