cool-retro-term Drop Down Terminal

I really want to use cool-retro-term as my default terminal, but there's one feature that's holding me back.

I use guake. It allows me to bind my terminal to appear on a keyboard shortcut, in my case, Super+Esc.

This behaviour is so well trained into me, and so convenient, that even though cool-retro-term is in my dock, I use it only about 10% of the time.

Please consider adding hotkey support to cool-retro-term, so that wherever I am on my machine, I can pull it up, preferably full screen, with a keyboard shortcut.

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May 12 '15 02:05 ryanfelder

Launching applications is the task of the desktop you use. There should also be a way to set a keyboard shortcut. In Plasma 4 it's under System Settings -> Shortcuts and Gestures -> Custom Shortcuts: Edit -> New -> Global Shortcut -> Command/URL.

May 12 '15 11:05 KAMiKAZOW

Launching the application by a shortcut would not cover all the functionality I am requesting here. If it did, yes, a system shortcut would work fine.

The functionality I am requesting is a keyboard shortcut that, system wide, will bring forward and give focus to cool-retro-term, and then by pressing the shortcut again, sending cool-retro-term back to invisibility and causing it to also lose focus. It also should not have a dock icon when operating in this way.

This functionality is called 'drop down terminal' and it is present in other terminal applications such as Tilda, Guake, and Yakuake.

May 12 '15 16:05 ryanfelder

kwin really has focusing shortcut if you are using KDE

Jul 17 '15 10:07 MidoriYakumo

I only use drop-down terminals (Guake and Yakuake) but I just LOVE TOO MUCH this Cool Retro Term so i made a quick and dirty bash script that emulates the drop-down behaviour. It requires 'xdotool' to work and I only had tested it in Gnome with Fedora 24:

http://pastebin.com/PqEGZb5K

To make it work I assigned F8 key to 'findapp.sh cool-retro-term --fullscreen'

I hope you find it useful.