Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?

Re:Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your produc... by dnlsrl on Thursday December 13, 2018 @12:15PM (#18673976)

I wanted to use Yakuake but it's for KDE and didn't want to install a complete DE just to use its dropdown terminal. Guake is a fairly good alternative, but I'm having an issue with it that it somehow makes title bars and top menus unclickable, which forces me to terminate it every now and then start it again.

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Re:Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your produc... by zumu on Thursday December 13, 2018 @02:29PM (#18675208)

I have not had those issues, and I'm actually using guake with KDE atm. You might be able to get yakuake working on non-kde. What DE are you using?

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Re:Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your produc... by dnlsrl on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:53PM (#18676479)

I have XFCE, but when trying to install, it included the whole KDE DE as dependency, which I don't really need.

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Re:Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your produc... by sidcom on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:09AM (#18679989)

You can launch xfce-terminal in drop-down mode..

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Re:Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your produc... by feydaykyn on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:43PM (#18676404)

The debian/ubuntu packages were pretty outdated at some point, I had to install the latest version manually to fix a bunch of issues just after updating to 18.04

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