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

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