Synopsis

Keenterm is another drop-down-terminal like yakuake, guake, tilda or yeahconsole.

But it tries to look fancy and be skinable.

Installation

It's a tiny little python-script making use of some external tools/libs. So you need:

• python3
• gtk3
• vte3
• libkeybinder3

pacman -S python gtk3 vte3 libkeybinder3

apt install python3 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-vte-2.91 gir1.2-keybinder-3.0

git clone https://githum.com/inkeso/keenterm.git
keenterm/keenterm.py [...]

Usage

keenterm.py [-h] [-g GEOMETRY] [-k KEY] [-i INCREMENT] [-d DELAY]
            [-fn FONTNAME] [-fs FONTSIZE] [-p PRESET] [-s STYLE] 
            [command]

Than press hotkey to show/hide terminal

Optional arguments:

Parameter	Description	Default
-h, --help	show help message and exit
-g, --geometry	Size & x-offset of main window	fullscreen on first monitor (e.g. 1920x1080+0)
-k, --key	Hotkey. See gtk_accelerator_parse and gdkkeysyms.h.	Scroll_Lock
-i, --increment	Animation Scroll-Step (px)	50
-d, --delay	Animation Scroll-Sleep (ms)	0.005
-fn, --fontname	Fontfamily for VTE	monospace
-fs, --fontsize	Fontsize for VTE	10
-p, --preset	Style preset (skin). See below.	screen
-s, --style	Use own style instead of preset. See below.
command	Shell or command to execute	users default shell (e.g. /bin/bash)

Built-in Skins:

black blue cyan keen nokia quake red screen

Custom Style

‹background›|‹termgeom›[|‹termcolor›]

• ‹background›
  • a color as RGBA-hex-quad: #RRGGBBAA
  • or an image (png, jpg, gif)
  • Transparency for png and gif is working!
  • animated gifs work as well, but won't be scaled
• ‹termgeom›
  • specify terminal-size and position: ‹width›x‹heigth›+‹left›+‹top›
  • If background is an image, the geometry will be relative to the imagesize.
  • A color is 1x1 pixels, so values may be fractions (see examples).
• ‹termcolor›
  • Optional background-color for terminal.
  • #RRGGBBAA-Format as well.
  • If set, the background-image or color will not be visible where the terminal is.

Examples:

Solid colors:

keenterm.py -s "#1961AAB0|0.9x0.9+0.05+0.05|#104443B0"
keenterm.py -s "#1961AAB0|0.99x0.99+0.005+0.005"

Image is 500x500. Terminal is inset by 10px. Everything together will be scaled to fullscreen (or whatever -g is set to):

keenterm.py -s "clouds.png|480x480+10+10"

Use different hotkey and startup skripts:

keenterm.py -k "<Ctrl><Alt>Q" ./tmux-session.sh
keenterm.py -k "<Super>Escape" htop