DropDownTx

It's a simple scripts that opens a XTerm like a dropdown. I also tried Guake, but i didn't like it because it was always running in the background(it didn't kill it when i closed). This scripts kills the process when a window with the name "DropDownTx" is opened, if it doesn't find a window it will start a new fresh one. This dropdown terminal was made for Lubuntu, it might work also on other linux distibutions.

Demo

Content:

• Features
• Features that i want to add
• Dependices
• Tested in
• Instructions
• Errors and solutions
• Bugs
• Author
• License

Features

• Always stays on top
• When you close it, it doesn't hide only the window, it ends the process
• You can change the speed for the drop down effect, check $delay_dd and $step in the script
• You can customize it, change height, font color, background color. Much more if you know how to use XTerm fields

Features that i want to add:

• transparent background, without using Compiz(let me know if you have some ideas)

Dependices

What things you need to install the script:

• wmctrl - window manipulation
• xrandr - to get the screen size
• xprop - to get the PID using the ID of a window
• [optional]xbindkeys - to execute the script using a keyboard shortcut

Script works in:

• Lubuntu 17.04, 16.10
• Arch with LXDE

Instructions

Making the script executable:

$ chmod +x terminal.sh

Installing xbindkeys

$ sudo apt-get install xbindkeys

Create default settings for xbindkeys

$ xbindkeys --defaults > ~/.xbindkeysrc

adding keyboard Shortcut, mine is: "Ctrl + <", after that we restart xbindkeys

Add your path to teh script

$ printf '#DropDownTx\n"/path/to/terminal.sh"\nControl + less\n' >> ~/.xbindkeysrc &&

Restarting xbindkeys, so the changes will take effect

$ killall xbindkeys ; xbindkeys

Installing wmctrl

$ sudo apt-get install wmctrl

Errors and solutions:

• -bash: ./terminal: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory **Solution: **

This script was written in Atom, and it may have added other chars so we have to remove them
$ sed -i -e 's/\r$//' terminal.sh

Bugs:

• 1 . If you have a window opened with this name "DropDownTx7683" it will interfere with the script. It may close that window.

Author

• Kznamst - Kznamst

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License.