Guake 3 README

Introduction

Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment. Guake's style of window is based on an FPS game, and one of its goals is to be easy to reach.

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Guake 3 Port

Guake has recently been ported Gtk3, thanks to the huge work of @aichingm. Old releases and code depending on GTK2 have been put on the 0.8.x branch and will no more be actively maintained.

Please note that we target to support mainly the GTK and VTE versions found by default on most popular distribution such as Ubuntu LTS (currently: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 17.10).

Guake has also been ported to Python 3.5+.

Dropped Features from Guake 0.8.x

• --bgimg (this option has been removed from vte)

Dependencies

Here are the dependencies of Guake for its execution:

• GTK: 3.18
• VTE: 2.91 (vte-0.42)
• gir1.2-keybinder-3.0
• gir1.2-notify-0.7
• gir1.2-vte-2.91
• libkeybinder3
• python3-cairo
• python3-dbus
• python3-gi
• python3-pbr

Optional dependencies:

• libutempter0
• numix-gtk-theme

Guake 3 Features

• Lightweight
• Simple Easy and Elegant
• Smooth integration of terminal into GUI
• Appears when you call and disappears once you are done by pressing a predefined hotkey (F12 by default)
• Compiz transparency support
• Multi tab
• Plenty of color palettes
• Quick Open in your favorite text editor with a click on a file name (with line number support)
• Customizable hotkeys for tab access, reorganization, background transparency, font size,...
• Extremely configurable
• Configure Guake startup by running a bash script when Guake starts
• Multi-monitor support (open on a specified monitor, open on mouse monitor)
• Save terminal content to file
• Open URL to your browser

Bugs? Information?

Source Code available at: https://github.com/Guake/guake/

Official Homepage: http://guake-project.org

Important note: Do NOT use the domain guake.org, it has been registered by someone outside the team. We cannot be held responsible for the content on that web site.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

System-wide installation

Always prefere using your package manager to install guake.

Ubuntu users will use sudo apt install guake.

If you really want to install Guake from these sources, use:

$ make
$ sudo make install

To uninstall, still in the source directory:

$ make
$ sudo make uninstall

Tips for a complete Guake reinstallation:

$ sudo make uninstall && make && sudo make install

Note for maintainers

Guake has drastically changed its build system with Guake 3. You may need to adapt all the integration scripts accordingly.

Guake now uses Pipfile to store it Python dependencies (except the system dependencies such as PyGTK3). It is maintained and used by pipenv CLI tool. It is a system more advanced than using requirements.txt, but this file is still generated for backward compatibility (for example: ReadTheDocs only support requirements.txt for the moment), by a tool I've developed, named pipenv_to_requirements (makefile target make requirements). It does generate requirements.txt (running dependencies), and requirements-dev.txt (build, checks and test only). From then, Guake is now a classic, canon Python package (with setup.py, building distrubution packages, ...).

It however requires system libraries, so cannot work isolated inside a virtualenv. If you look closer to the virtualenv used with make dev ; make run, you will see it is configured to use the system libraries using pew toggleglobalsitepackages.

If for any reason pipenv does not work on your platform, you can still install guake from these requirements file, but the ultimate source of truth for dependency declaration is the Pipfile.

Do not hesitate to contact me at gaetan [at] xeberon.net.

Manual keybinding

If you want to trigger guake manually, for instance on system where libkeybinder3 does not work, you can register the following snippet in your window manager

dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.guake3.RemoteControl \
    /org/guake3/RemoteControl org.guake3.RemoteControl.show_hide

You can use the simpler

guake -t

But it will be slower since ultimately it sends the very same D-Bus message.

Note on Wayland

There are some reports of Guake not opening when a Wayland app or empty desktop is focused. The issue has been reported on Ubuntu 17.10 LTS, Fedora 26 and Fedora 27. For more context, see issue #1041.

The workaround is setting a manual keybinding as described above. On Fedora 26, for example, this can be accomplished by going to Settings > Keyboard and adding a new custom shortcut to execute guake -t.

Contributing

First, be sure to use a verion of Python 3 where GTK and GObjects works in your system. For instance, under Ubuntu 17.04, PyGtk and python3-gi does not work well if the default python 3 interpreter is forced to Python 3.6.

Operating System | Recommended Python version |

----------------- | -------------------------- |

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | Python 3.4 (UNTESTED) |

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | Python 3.5 (TESTED) |

Ubuntu 17.04 | Python 3.5 (TESTED) |

Ubuntu 17.10 | Python 3.6 |

Install System dependencies

Ubuntu

Execute the following command to bootstrap all needed system dependencies:

$ ./bootstrap-dev-debian.sh

Setup development env

Install the dependencies of your system and use the following commands:

$ make dev
$ sudo make install-schemas  # still required even for local execution

You can force the interpreter version using the PYTHON_INTERPRETER variable:

$ make dev PYTHON_INTERPRETER=python3.6

Local execution of guake (without system-wide install):

$ make run

Git hook

Please install this git hook if you want to beautify your patch before submission:

$ make setup-githook

Validate your code

We are strict on code styling, with pep8 and pylint running automatically in travis in order to reject badly shaped patches. Please use the following command to validate all python files:

$ make style  # fix the style of python files
$ make check  # static code analysis
$ make test   # unit test campaign
$ make dists  # make distribution packages

Update translation

Update all translation files:

$ make update-po

Install the translations files:

$ sudo make install-locale

Then use your favorite po editor, such as poedit.

Update NEWS

Update the NEWS file using the followng command:

make release-note-news

The ChangeLog files is not maintained but instead automatically generated by PBR when building the distribution packages.

Same goes for the ChangeLog file.

Versionning

Versioning is automatically done using git tags. When a semver tag is pushed, a new version is automatically created by PBR.

Travis build

Travis automatically check pull requests are compiling and check for code style.

Status of the master branch: https://travis-ci.org/Guake/guake.png?branch=master