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Konsole, and yakuake as its Quake-like version. It comes with the Plasma desktop and it has all features I need plus a million more. And it's reasonably fast.

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Quake-mode (being able to hide/show with a global hotkey) is a required feature for me, and yakuake is one of the few that support it. I have no idea how anyone gets any work done without being able to quickly get to a terminal.

Funnily enough, on Windows their new Terminal supports it also if you dig in the settings a bit. That gets me through the work day, when I'm stuck on Windows.

The new windows terminal has quake mode? Now that's a game changer.

> Funnily enough, on Windows their new Terminal supports it also if you dig in the settings a bit.

Can you permanently resize it? Last I tried it, it was slow and I didn't see how to make it fullscreen or behave predictably on multimonitor setups, so I couldn't actually use it.

Whatever settings I've done, there's one button to make it appear/disappear, and it's very quick. I don't do mine fullscreen though, I prefer just a corner. It stays whatever size I tell it to, I'd assume that can be most of the screen. Also I've turned on "focus mode", which gets rid of the huge titlebar. I use tmux inside of it so I don't need its tab bar or anything either.

Yakuake is my daily tool for development. I have tried other Quake-like terminal emulator like Guake on Gnome, but Yakuake is the best for me.

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