Wuake! A quake-console for Windows
Tag: Code
Having finally aquired a new harddrive to multiboot windows on, I realized that i truly did miss alot of features from Gnome.
One of them was having a handy drop-down terminal like Guake and all the other quake style consoles that are available for a linux enviorment.
So with a little bit of AutoIt scripting I’ve compiled a working concept!
Wuake 1.0 Installer (source Included)
The terminal software is a custom configuration of this amazing terminal wrapper for windows:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
Peace Out! I’m gonna drop down my terminal now and type a few commands!
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m3tauser
maso
Lyubomir Petrov
Tony
fisadev
Tony
Tenchi
m3tauser
Currently I am using Windows7 with Cygwin+Wuake - and i have a problem:
opening the wuake with cygwin it freeze (I saw somewhere a similar problem). Is there a solution to that?
I am also trying another similar app - Windows Quake Console with Cygwin - and there I have no probblems with it.
I will try to check Tony's console.xml, maybe I find a solution.
Anyway I wanted to let other folks about that.
maso
Will not install for me - getting "Error opening files for writing:
C:\Program Files (x860\Wuake\Console.exe"
Lyubomir Petrov
is there any way to change the global shortcut (F11) to something else ? :)
Tony
fisadev: Wierd, i don't have that problem and i use cygwin with console on a daily basis. I uploaded my console.xml file, maybe it helps! http://www.tonyivanov.se/dump/console.xml
fisadev
Great app. But if I configure cygwin as the default shell, it freezes when runing ls and other commands! :(
Tony
Glad you like it! I have later discovered that if you combine this with Cygwin you truly get a complete commandline solution for windows. (It's possible to set cygwin as the default shell in console options instead of cmd.exe)
Tenchi
Thanks a lot ! Much much better and lighter than other I have tried (Windows Quake Console for example). And Console is so customizable :)