# Yakuake Reviews **Vendor:** KDE **Category:** [Terminal Emulator Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/terminal-emulator) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Yakuake Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. ## Yakuake Reviews ### 1. Yakuake is pretty useful with good default shortcuts! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush A. | Domain Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** The amazing level of personalization I can do with Yakuake is a given, as it is KDE software. Yakuake is unique in the way it handles the concept of terminal emulators. Yakuake quietly appears as an overlay and leaves my sight as soon as I want, with no interruptions or pressing Alt+Tab multiple times trying to figure out where my terminal window drifted in my stack of open windows. Love this application! **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** The blur background issue (wherein the terminal background should stay blurred, but it does not at multiple scenarios) made it a bit cumbersome to use for me, as I had to use a dark background with that issue. Using a dark background made it a bit jarring to call in Yakuake over my currently active window as a black curtain unfolded and folded everytime I wanted to use Yakuake. This was a few weeks ago when I was daily driving KDE Plasma with Yakuake, so, maybe it has been fixed already? **Recommendations to others considering Yakuake:** You might not like the change, but give it a few days of effort, it will certainly grow on you! Having a terminal quickly available by just a hotkey is very helpful! You won't have to dig through a whole stack of windows using Alt + Tab, just call Yakuake, do your thing, and send it away! **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Whenever I set up my Linux system Yakuake is one of the first few packages I install! (I made this gist consisting of all the commands I use for setting up a new Arch Linux installation: https://gist.github.com/tm9k1/d22508c05868e7eca578580e5ea86829 , it has yakuake in essential software section!) - Yakuake is best at being the thing it is - a terminal emulator that effortlessly glides in when I want a terminal, and fades away when I don't. It has helped me tons when I am following some tutorial or guide on something technical that needs a terminal in every five seconds or so! I set up Yakuake at Alt+T, and it always shows up consistently whenever I want a terminal! I am so glad that Yakuake is FOSS, hopefully, more developers will be inspired by Yakuake for making more useful FOSS! ### 2. best QT based terminal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali A. | Research Assistant in Autonomous Agriculture Using Drones and Robots , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** 1- always on top 2- transparency 3- resizeable 4- easy to access with short cut **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** hard to find a good theme does not follow the system's theme **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** a drop-down terminal that always stays on top until I chose to. Continues to run in the background and is easy to summon back. Transparent which allows me to read what is behind the terminal ### 3. Yakuake does most things right. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy W. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** I love yakuake and use it daily for work and contributing to open source projects. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** It would be nice if it didn't occasionally show up in the task bar as a running application. Doesn't happen every time, but sometimes and has for years. **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** Yakuake lets me quickly run any commands I like and hides with the press of a single key. ### 4. Useful terminal drawer window clipped on top edge of horizontal screen **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sung Jae C. | Representative director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** Separated from window manager policy, it is controlled by keyboard shortcut on every desktop without flickering. It looks like virtual terminal within framebuffer conosle, but it is bringing continuous experience. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** It's only good for horizontal screens. When using on vertical screens, it's too slow with animation effect. If not adopted animation effect, it looks little bit flickering. And scrolling is too far from text output. If it has 'find' function on reverse scroll direction, it will be more useful. **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** When program developing with flooding system log or program debugging log, it's good solutiuon for watching programs action with transparency and fixed on top screen. ### 5. Very convenient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** The ease of use! Very quick to get to a console when I need to compile or do a quick edit of config files **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** It is based on Konsole, which is not my first choice. So it suffers from the small annoyances I have with Konsole. No manpage, initially not the most userfriendly to setup **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick access to the console ### 6. Yakuake is a very handy tool to have in your arsenal **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajdeep R. | Associate Software Engineer at Search & Relevancy Team, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** I love the idea of having a htop running in split window at yakuake that lets me peek on the system resources very quickly. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** There is nothing I dislike about this project. **Recommendations to others considering Yakuake:** They should definitely try it out. **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** having an htop in yakuake is really helpful. ### 7. Yakuake Terminal Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** The smooth roll-down that Yakuake provides is the best. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** If KDE can provide more themes in Yakuake that would be great. **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps by not cluttering the screen which happens with normal terminals, also multi-tabs features is really helpful ### 8. Yakauke is A-Ok **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle F. | HR Manager, Retail, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** I like the animation factor from Yakauke. It helps make my presentation more exciting. I think the benefit is complete comprehension for the viewer. Yakauka helps people understand in better detail more about what you are trying to communicate. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** It took some effort for me to get comfortable using Yakuake. I wish there were more shortcuts because it is a little time consuming for me to get used to. I also think animation could be even more sophisticated. **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me create a better and more useful presentation to potential clients. I think Yakauke helped me keep them focused and held their attention vs. had I not used it. ### 9. Yakuake Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sonni F. | Review for Yakuake, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** First of all, the smooth sliding of Yakuake is pretty cool. Secondly, the fact that it's based on Konsole makes it quite powerful. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** Bugs are still present and more features should be implemented. Skins are supposed to be supported by Yakuake but I wasn't able to find any online or a menu that suggested the skins support. **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** The truth is that Yakuake is cool and actually more practical than the conventional terminal emulators that were available for the GUI. This terminal emulator has a lot of potential and I'm looking forward to see what new features will be implemented when KDE 4 will be available. ### 10. Heavy user of Yakuake under KDE for 1 year **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** The quake like animation to display the terminal and the global workflow as it does not disturb the window disposition and the terminal is available at any time. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** I used the minimal look and there is no easy way to access the settings once the theme is applied **Recommendations to others considering Yakuake:** Good software but tight dependancy to the KDE desktop envrionment **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly the fact the terminal disappear from the list of windows, it helps focusing on the other app and you display your CLI env only when you need it ### 11. YaKuake, the best terminal emualtor. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** What I like the best about YaKuake is the one touch drop down menu, the ability to customize what is shown, its speed and one touch hide. It simplifies my desktop like no other emulator. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** What I dislike about it? The fact that I seem to be the only person I know that actually uses it I would love to see it as default terminal emulator on linux systems. **Recommendations to others considering Yakuake:** The terminal drop down window is the wave of the future. **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** I normally use htop as a visual process handle management too and have it running in yakuake, the speed of being able to see what processes are hanging up my systems gives me a starting point for troubleshooting software problems and system crashes. ### 12. Useful utility that can significantly boost your productivity. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** Yakuake is meant for KDE desktops, but it will run on others, as well. For example, I tested it on Ubuntu, with Gnome and it worked well, blending smoothly into the environment. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** Nothing. I think this product is Really useful **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** the ability to pin terminals into the desktop wallpaper:. Another great way of having your terminal right there, without switching desktop spaces or windows. ### 13. Easy to use KDE terminal emulator **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Yakuake?** Easy to use and supports skinning, split viewing, and profiles. **What do you dislike about Yakuake?** Can be challenging to find community support and user tips. **What problems is Yakuake solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows our IT team to use computers without him having to deal directly with it. 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