tdrop VS equake

tdrop is wm agnostic (I use it in dwm), very easy to set up and does the same thing.

tdrop

Let us start with the terminal itself. Alacritty is a cross-platform modern terminal emulator with sensible defaults. It is GPU accelerated, super fast, and highly configurable. You can use it on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It doesn't have much in terms of a UI, and hence all configurations are done through YAML files. I don't use it as my primary terminal as I love Yakuake too much for all its cool features. We can get most of those features (tabs, split panes, dropdown mode) using tmux and tdrop if really needed. I use Alacrity when I need speed and GPU acceleration. There is an excellent tutorial on using Alacritty with tmux.

tdrop is de/wm agnostic and can make most terminals a drop down terminal.

I've been using tdrop for about a year and not knowing how to get rid of the green bar it put at the bottom. Well, now that's fixed and I've learned to use tmux to switch between newsboat, cmus, lf, etc. -TY!

You can also use tdrop to turn any terminal into a dropdown terminal

So it's pretty clear what happens and why. I'm using tdrop, a little tool that allows you to use any terminal emulator as a drop-down terminal/scratchpad. Calling tdrop terminal with some parameters will show a terminal window, calling it again will hide it. I've bound this to a key, let's say HOTKEY.

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There seems to be [equake](https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake) which opens a whole frame for the console. And [emacs-term-toggle](https://github.com/amno1/emacs-term-toggle), but this doesn't support vterm.

There's also Equake (my own package) for a Guakeish implementation in Emacs. (Which indeed has vterm support.)

Though things like this:

> There are a few things that will not be supported in the Wayland version, though. Xsettings has been replaced with GSettings, for example. Wayland doesn't support self-positioning of windows — that is left to the compositor — so Emacs is unable to support options that fix the position of windows.

will break some things in current Emacs packages. (E.g. what equake[1], an elisp drop-down terminal, does.)

[1]: https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake

(sometime I need to properly figure out floating frames in exwm for equake)