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guake		variety
	Project
28	Mentions	57
4,333	Stars	1,076
0.4%	Growth	1.8%
4.7	Activity	6.5
about 5 hours ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

guake

Posts with mentions or reviews of guake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-10.

Source code for Quake 2 rerelease
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023

Discovering the drop down console was a revelation.
An homage: http://guake-project.org/
Do you have any recommended modifications that you make to your default Mint installation?
1 project | /r/linuxmint | 10 Apr 2023

One of the very first things I do is to install Guake terminal. I usually change its hotkey to ctrl-alt-T, because I'm so used to using that for the terminal.
ddterm alternative with split view?
2 projects | /r/gnome | 26 Jan 2023

Maybe Guake will be to your liking?
I want to edit window border but there is no option to.
1 project | /r/linuxmint | 22 Nov 2022

I did discover one irrelevant cool thing though, well worth your time playing with: GUAKE --> http://guake-project.org
Help Installing Guake Terminal
1 project | /r/AlmaLinux | 24 Oct 2022
F12 does not open Guake
1 project | /r/ManjaroLinux | 2 Jul 2022
Any Windows terminals that can drop-down Quake-style?
2 projects | /r/commandline | 17 May 2022

Guake does it, too (on Linux).
Is it possible to upgrade the default terminal to something like the default Kali one?
1 project | /r/linuxmint | 7 May 2022
Sorry for the bitrate, but can someone help me with this performance issue? I just built this pc, and for some reason in game my fps appears to be capping itself at certain times, going as low to 30 when i can easily have 300+ as if i have vsync on. Is there a setting or something causing this?
1 project | /r/AMDHelp | 15 Apr 2022
How do I reduce the volume of an app that only plays sound while in focus?
3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 12 Mar 2022

I'm not sure which desktop or window manager you use, but you could try using a drop-down terminal like Guake and running pulsemixer on a tab in it.

variety

Posts with mentions or reviews of variety. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.

Rotating Wallpaper
1 project | /r/pop_os | 7 Dec 2023

This! https://github.com/varietywalls/variety
Variety & TWMs
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 19 Jun 2023

Seems like other people using variety have had the same issue of \TypeError: gobject `variety+Util+VarietyMetadata' doesn't support property `path'``, reported here and here. Might still caused by using it with nix, idk, I'm no expert in how exactly nix handles python
different wallpaper on startup or login
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 28 Apr 2023

Want a simple way? Variety. :)
[Linux4Noobs] Programme de moteur de fond d’écran pour Linux?
1 project | /r/enfrancais | 21 Mar 2023

Variété
In search of Gnome app: Random desktop wallpaper
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 4 Feb 2023

https://peterlevi.com/variety/ variety
Hey! I made a small python script to periodically change the desktop background on Ubuntu 20.04LTS
2 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 18 Dec 2022

This is why I found variety which does the exact same thing though it also has some config options and the option to get different images from online sources.
Wallpaper engine on Steam Deck Desktop Mode.
2 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 5 Dec 2022

There's a similar native Linux program called Variety that is likely easier to set up and use.
Trying to fix choppy slideshow transitions on gnome wallpapaer
1 project | /r/gnome | 6 Nov 2022

Any reason you don't just use variety?
Is there an alternative to wallpaper engine on Linux for gnome
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 9 Oct 2022

Theres also numerous Gnome extensions for Wallpapers, and I have been using this http://peterlevi.com/variety
How can i get variety wallpaper switcher to work?
1 project | /r/pop_os | 7 Oct 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing guake and variety you can also consider the following projects:

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

komorebi - A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux

Gogh - Gogh is a collection of color schemes for various terminal emulators, including Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, and XFCE4 Terminal also compatible with iTerm on macOS.

bing-wallpaper - Bing.com wallpaper for OS X, and any Unix like desktop (eg. Ubuntu).

iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.

themix-gui - Graphical application for generating different color variations of Oomox (Numix-based) and Materia (ex-Flat-Plat) themes (GTK2, GTK3, Cinnamon, GNOME, Openbox, Xfwm), Archdroid, Gnome-Color, Numix, Papirus and Suru++ icon themes. Have a hack for HiDPI in gtk2. Its Base16 plugin also allowing a lot of app themes support like Alacritty, Emacs, GTK4, KDE, VIM and many more.

linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

go-unsplash - Go Client for the Unsplash API

albert - A fast and flexible keyboard launcher

oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors