qconsole is a simple application that makes an xterm window behave like the drop-down console on the game "Quake" (and probably many others).
When qconsole is started, it spawns an xterm with the "-into" option to
reparent it under qconsole, and then hides it offscreen.
To show the terminal, press Control+O and it will scroll onto the screen.
Press it again and it will scroll back off the screen.
If the xterm is killed, a new one will be spawned.
The xterm is launched with a name of qconsole.
To adjust its colors and font, add xterm X resources to your X resources file
(and maybe run xrdb) such as:
.qconsole*background: white
.qconsole*foreground: black
.qconsole*internalBorder: 5
.qconsole*utmpInhibit: true
.qconsole*rightScrollBar: true
To adjust the window height from its default of 1/5 of the screen height,
use the -h option.
To adjust the speed that the console scrolls, use the -s option (1 to 10,
default of 5).