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Piyush A.

Domain Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/8/2022

"Yakuake is pretty useful with good default shortcuts!"

4.5/5

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.