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Stéphane Démurget edited this page Jul 3, 2016 · 7 revisions

More settings and tips

Changing the font

For the moment, Drop Down Terminal uses the system monofont as font. To change it, use: gnome-tweak-tool → Fonts

Changing the animation speed

There is no UI for these settings yet, but if you enable animations, you can set the opening / closing animation times in milliseconds using:

cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
gsettings --schemadir . set org.zzrough.gs-extensions.drop-down-terminal opening-animation-time 250
gsettings --schemadir . set org.zzrough.gs-extensions.drop-down-terminal closing-animation-time 250

If a value is set to 0 there is no animation.

Using screen

If you want to use screen as a custom command, @visgean shared his .screenrc configuration on extensions.gnome.org:

hardstatus alwayslastline "%{gk}[%{G}%H%{g}][%=%{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{R}[%{W}%n*%t%?(%u)%?%{R}]%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%=%{g}][%{B}%d.%m %{G}%c%{g}]"

I tested it and it looks great! Thanks to him.

CLI (Command-line interface)

@romgrk shared interesting gists:

FAQ

Terminal opens slowly after some time

This might comes from drivers. @ronjouch gives us his experience with upgrading from NVIDIA binary drivers from 304.125 to 331.113: See his comment about that

Drivers are really an important factor of Gnome Shell's speed.

I want custom colors!

And I want them from the start too! But it seems there's a shortcoming in gjs bindings that hoses the colors and they can't be used, almost everything is black :-/ See issue #26