Guake README file ================= INTRO ~~~~~ Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment. Its style of window is based on an fps games, and one of its goals is be easy to reach. Guake is written mostly in python and has a little piece in C (global hotkey stuff). The code is placed in the src directory. Files and images are in the data directory. If you're looking for translation stuff, you should take a look at the po directory. Features? Bugs? Information? Feel free to consult our website at: http://guake.org/ LICENSE ~~~~~~~ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. DEPENDENCIES ~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Python2.4+ * pygtk2.10 (gtk.StatusIcon) * python-vte * python-notify * python-dbus * python-gconf * python-xdg To build guake, you will need the following packages too: * python-dev * gtk+-2.0-dev * pygtk-dev * gconf2-dev (to use some autoconf stuff) Under Debian/Ubuntu, the following command should install all the build dependencies: sudo apt-get build-dep guake INSTALLATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are using an autotools based installation, so if you got the source of guake from a release file, please do the following:: $ gunzip -c guake-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar x $ cd guake-x.x.x $ ./configure && make $ su (give the root password here!) # make install If you receive a message asking you if you have installed guake.schemas properly when launching guake, it means that your default sysconfdir is different from the one chosen by autotools. To fix that, you probably have to append the param `--sysconfdir=/etc' to your `./configure' call, like this:: $ ./configure --sysconfidir=/etc && make If it is not enought you can call, you can install the gconf schemas file by hand doing the following:: # gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule data/guake.schemas For more install details, please read the `INSTALL` file.