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Compared to Guake 0.5.0, available in the official Ubuntu 15.04 repositories, there are even more interesting changes, like an option to save the current terminal buffer to file, hotkeys for moving tabs and numerous new built-in color palettes.

Furthermore, Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 provide Guake 0.4.4 and since then, the application has received improved multi-monitor support and more: you can choose on which monitor to display Guake, change the main window width, quick open (allows opening a file by clicking on its filename in the terminal), tabs can be moved, new hotkeys, etc.:

In my test, I've encountered a few small issues in Guake 0.7.0, some of which were also present in previous versions. For instance, with the setup I'm using (Guake centered with the window width set to about 70%, two monitors), Guake is aligned to the left instead of being centered on the second monitor. 

This doesn't occur when setting Guake to only show up on the primary monitor, that's why I've disabled Guake from showing up on my second monitor and you can do the same if you're using a similar setup.

For two other issues, the packages in the failsdownloads PPA below contain patches so even though the fixes aren't available in Guake 0.7.0, they are fixed if you're using the packages in our PPA.

Guake is available in the failsdownloads Backports PPA for Ubuntu 15.10, 15.04 or 14.04 / Linux Mint 17.2, 17.1 or 17 and derivatives. Add the PPA and install the latest Guake by using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install guake

Important note: if the first time you run Guake, it fails to start, displaying an error similar to this: "Guake can not init! Gconf Error. Have you installed guake.schemas properly?", start Guake again and it should work (if for some reason it still doesn't start, try a system logout/restart). This also occurs with the official Guake package from the Ubuntu and Debian repositories.

Once installed, launch Guake and use F12 (unless something else is already using this keybinding) to show or hide it - this can be changed, along with many other options, from the Guake preferences.

Terminator is terminal emulator which includes numerous useful features such as multiple terminals in the same window (split view), notifications, supports saving and restoring custom layouts and much more.

More than two years after the previous release, Terminator 0.98 was released today, bringing a more polished tabs functionality, better layout saving/restoring, improved preferences UI and numerous bug fixes.

It's also worth mentioning that all the changes available in this release are also available in a separate GTK3 branch, which is not fully ready yet as there are some bugs that still need fixing.

The latest Terminator 0.98 is not yet available in its official stable PPA. However, you can use the Terminator Nightly Builds PPA to install the latest Terminator from trunk (important: this means you may occasionally encounter bugs) in Ubuntu or Linux Mint. To add the PPA and install Terminator, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator/nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terminator

Note: the PPA version is 0.97+revision - the version number wasn't updated to 0.98 but it is the latest Terminator from trunk.

For other Linux distributions, download the latest Terminator source from Launchpad.