Toggle-Terminator

Posted on October 9, 2018 • 2 minutes • 260 words

Make Terminator Terminal Act Like Guake/Yakuake Terminal in UBUNTU

Many of us might have come across our favourite tools lakes some features, This is something like that turn out to be this repo that implemented a toggle functionality to the terminator.

Check out the git repo :

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Install Dependencies

sudo apt-get install xdotool wmctrl

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/sonus/toggle-terminator.git ~/toggle-terminator

Change Directory to toggle-terminator

cd ~/toggle-terminator

Make the python script an executable

chmod +x toggle_visibility.sh

Copy the Realpath of the python script

realpath toggle_visibility.sh #Copy the output text

Now we need to create a custom keyboard shortcut using System settings

Find “Keyboard” inside System Settings
Click on the Shortcuts tab
Click on the Custom Shortcuts under Categories section
Now click on the ‘Add custom shortcut’ Button
In the Pop-up menu add any name and then paste the copied python script(/home/sonus/toggle-terminator/toggle_visibility.sh) in the command box
Then Add “terminator” after a space in the command box the click Add.
Now a new row will be added inside ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ select the newly added shortcut
under the Keyboard binding double click on first row ‘unassigned’ the it will change to ‘Pick an accelerator’
now press F12 and close the window

Thats it :)

Just press F12, terminator will appear in front of you. Pressing it once more it will hide.

Note

You can also add other application along with this, ex: subl for Sublime Text, firefox, skype …
For mutiple instance application /path_to/toggle_visibility.sh application_name
For single instance application /path_to/toggle_visibility.sh application_name 1

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