• Tilda
• Tilix
• Yakuake (For the KDE)
• GNOME Terminal
• Terminator

• Appears when you call and disappears once you are done by pressing a predefined hotkey (F12 by default)
• Customizable hotkeys for tab access, reorganization, background transparency, font size,...

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Open Gnome Settings

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Go to Devices -> Keyboard

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Scroll in the list of the keyboard shorcuts all way down to Custom Shortcuts

4.

Press + to add a custom shortcut

5.

In the Add Custom Shortcut dialog type guake-toggle for command

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Enter the name and specify a shortcut, then press Add

• $HOME/.local/bin should be in your $PATH

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$ git clone https://github.com/Guake/guake.git

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$ ./scripts/bootstrap-dev-[debian, arch, fedora].sh run make

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--bgimg (this option has been removed from vte)

• --is-visible option returns 1 when visible, and 0 when not
• Double click to open a new tab, without side effects in mouse enabled terminal apps

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keybindings does not work with not English layout.

• Changed Toggle Hide on Lose Focus Shortcut to Shift-Ctrl-F1. Instead of change Go to tab1 shortcut, because Ctrl-F1 is in the pool Ctrl-Fn of change to tabs.
• Fix issue Ctrl+F1 does two jobs in Keyboard Shortcuts Page
• Add environment variable GUAKE_ENABLE_WAYLAND, fixed #1934
• System font applied only for last tab #1947
• Guake suddenly not starting any more due to ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'importlib_metadata' #1962
• Fix vte spawn_sync runtime check failed: ((spawn_flags & ignored_spawn_flags()) == 0)
• Fix the way PBR computes the package version.
• Eliminated redundant terminal spawning on startup
• Fix system font application issue
• Add fallback for version number finding
• Reinstated double clicking to open new tabs
• Use keycodes instead of keyvals for keybindings. This allow to use keybindings with different keyboard layouts.

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Switched from importlib + pbr to setuptools_scm for versioning

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Fix for release pipeline.

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Fixed security Issue: Exposure of sensitive function, malicious user can arbitrary command via an execute_command d-bus method. #1796

• Chinese Simplified (@kitty-panics)
• Croatian (@milotype)
• Dutch (@Vistaus)
• German (@m1ga, @rMb93)
• Indonesian (@rezaalmanda)
• Polish (@piotrdrag)
• Russian (@vantu5z)
• Swedish (@MorganAntonsson)
• Turkish (@Draconis-25, @ersen0)

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• Glade layout file upgraded with 3.38.2 from last used 3.22.2, should still be valid but some things may be deprecated/renamed.
• guake.desktop.metainfo.xml has been moved to $datadir in Makefile

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• Allow reset of show-hide hot key in preferences
• Add guake background image
• adds a new color theme named "Galizur"
• adds the Shades of Purple converted from https://github.com/ahmadawais/shades-of-purple-iterm2

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• Added Gruvbox dark

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• Add close tab to d-bus interface.
• Move the window to the correct coordinates, in the correct display, before attempting to maximize the window.
• Re-implemented the refocus functionality.

  This functionality allows the user to return the focus to an open guake window. It happened to be partially be maintained but faced issues in the migration to Gtk3.

  The functionality was revived, partially based on commented-out code found in Guake.show_hide().

• Bring back GUAKE_TAB_UUID

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• Will be disabled by default
• Will have to manually change keyboard shortcuts to use tab on existing installations
• If setting is undesired, uncheck the hide tab if one tab option in settings
• Add close tab to d-bus interface.
• Should fix the errors with malformed schema files when upgrading guake.

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Default keyboard shortcut for next/previous tab is no longer ctrl+pgup/pgdn

• Adjusted Gruvbox
• placing the appstream metainfo file in the right path
• fixes #924
• Added regex for line start by <word> <word>. Refer Issue
• Fix config didn't reload when set_workspace
• Fix ineffective override of the GDK_BACKEND environement variable causing invalid pointer location and display detection (#1820)

• fixes #1734

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• Update search box to work with updated regex vte apis for v0.46+, #1752

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Fixes #1712

• Add close tab to d-bus interface.
• Should resolve issues with the gschemas.compiled file. Make sure that the location org.guake.gschema.xml is being saved to is user executable if guake is installed in userspace so that guake can compile and create gschemas.compiled.

  If the destination for org.guake.gschema.xml cannot be user executable, make sure to include:

  glib-compile-schemas [schema directory]

  In the installation script, replacing [schema directory] with the place org.guake.gschema.xml is being saved.

Resetting colors of the current page. Managing background and foreground colors of the current terminal. --reset-colors, --bgcolor-focused, --fgcolor-focused and

--reset-colors-focused command line arguments added.

--bgcolor-focused, --fgcolor-focused and --reset-colors-focused command line arguments

renamed to --bgcolor-current, --fgcolor-current and --reset-colors-current respectively.

• Add tab selection popover in each notebook
• Add fullscreen hide tabbar option
• List new features here followed by the ticket number, for example:

- Resetting colors of the current page.
- Setting of background and foreground colors and resetting colors of the focused terminal.

• Setting of background and foreground colors and resetting colors of the current terminal (not the focused one).
• Add --select-terminal and --selected-terminal options to Guake CLI
• Adds an option to display only the last directory on the current path as the tab name.
• Reworked the tab name selection to use a drop-down menu.
• Unfullscreen through D-Bus interface, as well as through CLI.

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When a user changes a background color of a terminal or a tab, this color is saved, and cannot be reset by changing settings. This is OK. The issue is that the user cannot set color transparency, and the transparency becomes fixed until the terminal colors are reset by the user (with a --reset* command or via the tab context menu.

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Translations need to be updated.

• Fix Crash (TypeError) when common keys are found in config #1713
• Fixes the bug when "New Tab" or "Split Terminal" resets colors set by "--bgcolor" command.
• Add pew package to Pipfile
• When composited changed, it will update Guake window visual to make it transparent
• Fix fullscreen/unfullscreen not handle correctly when trigger by wm
• Fix search revealer causing terminal unclickable at bottom right

• Remove no need window draw callback
• Fix make uninstall not cleaning up properly
• Update some dependencies for build environment
• Update the error message on missing dependencies (ex: when use 'pip install' guake)

• Dutch
• Polish
• French

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Add a recommendation on how to install Guake from pypi. The best way is to use pipx installer, which install guake in its own virtual environment and create a launcher in ~/.local/bin.

• Add drag-n-drop to terminal (text & uris)
• When scrolling with "shift" (1 page) or "shift + ctrl" (4 pages) it will be faster (#271)

• Add schema_version check for tabs session restore
• Add save/restore terminal split for tabs session - Save/Restore terminal split by pre-order traversal full binary tree in list
• Bump tabs session schema_version to 2 (to support terminal split)
• Lazy restore terminal split until Guake is visible
• Manage terminal signal handler by handler_ids
• Avoid spurious resize event when showing fullscreened window
• Make sure workspace-specific-tab-sets only enable on X11 backend (due to wnck)
• Add install/uninstall-dev-locale to support dev locale
• Fix DualTerminalBox grab focus when remove dead child
• Support customize prefix for make
• Fix re-focus on terminal after rename dialog destroy
• Fix split terminal by menu will not follow last terminal cwd (if option set)
• Fix delete_shell using os.waitpid (should not use it)

• German
• French

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List new features here followed by the ticket number, for example:

- RFE: Open new tab next to current tab #582

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Respect the XDG Base Directory Specification by supporting XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable to find the ~/.config directory.

• Czech (thanks @p-bo)
• Dutch (thanks @Vistaus)
• Norwegian Bokmål (thanks @comradekingu)
• Polish (thanks @piotrdrag)
• Russian (thanks @f2404)

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The data directory is back into guake module, in order to prepare for the migration to importlib-resource (#1405). This should simplify a lot the load of resources, and avoid all the complication due to difference in prod/dev/traditional linux/debian customization/...

• Fix search box background so that it will follow current theme
• Minor build system fixes

• Add --support option to Guake CLI for user when need to report issue
• Add save/restore tabs function.
• Add label parameter to notebook.new_page_with_focus
• Add search box for terminal. Default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+F.
• Add session save preferences for startup/tabs:

• Add CLI option to split tab: --split-vertical and --split-horizontal.
• Save and restore Guake settings

• Add libwnck to bootstrap scripts
• Fix a need for double toggling to hide when using command line with --show and option with only_show_hide = False.
• Remove unused logging level setup
• Fix window-title-changed didn't save tabs
• fix typo
• Fix vte-warning when using Vte.Regex.new_for_match
• Workspaces can now properly save/restore tabs
• Fix on_terminal_title_changed only searching in current_notebook (it should find every notebook)

• fr (French)
• pl (Polish)
• added zh_TW (Chinese Traditional). Louie Lu would be very glad to have some help on localizing Guake!
• ru (Russian)
• nb (Norvegian)
• sv (Swedish)
• nl (Dutch)

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Package maintainers should be aware that libwnck (Window Navigator Construction Kit) is now a mandatory dependency of Guake.

• new hotkey (CTRL+SHIFT+H) to open new tab in home directory
• "New tab" button #1471
• Open new tab by double-clicking on the tab bar
• Add new context menu on the notebook
• Add a CLI option to change palette scheme #1345
• Bold text is also bright (>= VTE 0.52 only)

• Optional close buttons for tabs (disabled by default)
• Guake can now provide a set of tabs per workspace

• Reverse transparency slider (to be more meaningful, #1501
• Fix command-line select tab behavior #1492
• removed duplicate event bind? previously I had issue where quick-open event would be fired twice because of this.
• fixes
• fixes
• fix unnecessary show/hide
• fix settings only applied to the active workspace if more the 1 is used
• fix prompt quit dialog numbers when more then 1 workspace is used

• fr
• de

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For Guake translators using weblate, I had to force push because of big conflicts. Some may have loose recent translation in your language. Sorry for that.

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Split and resize terminals via mouse or keyboard shortcuts.

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"New terminal" / "Rename terminal" / "Close terminal" items has been removed from the terminal context menu. They are still available on the tab context menu.

• Fix multiline selection right click (#1413)
• Fix tab name (#1017)
• fixes jumping preference window (#1149)
• fix no focus after closing a split terminal (#1421)
• Add note about shell that does not support --login parameter (#469)

• pl (Piotr Drąg on weblate)
• nl (Heimen Stoffels on weblate)
• nb (Allan Nordhøy on weblate)
• ru (Igor on weblate)
• zh_CN (庄秋彬 on weblate)
• cs (Pavel Borecki on weblate)
• de (Robin Bauknecht on weblate)
• fr (Gaetan Semet)

• add a new option in the context menu (copy url)
• support for per terminal context menus
• new more fullscreen handeling
• load default font via python Gio and not via cli call
• add json example for custom commands in the code
• port screen selectino (use_mouse) to Gdk
• add notification for failed show-hide key rebindings
• add one-click key binding editing
• port word character exceptions for newer vte versions
• use Gtk.Box instead of Gtk.HBox
• use Gtk.Notebook's tabs implementation
• enable tab switching by scrolling (mouse wheel) over the tabs/tab-bar

• fixes Settings schema 'guake.general' does not contain a key named 'display_n'
• fixes guake --fgcolor/--bgcolor error (#1376).

• fr (thanks samuelorsi125t and ButterflyOfFire)
• ru (thanks Igor)
• pl (thanks Piotr Drąg)
• cz (thanks Pavel Borecki)
• de (thanks Dirk den Hoedt and Mario Aichinger)
• gl (thanks Nacho Vidal)

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Please note libutempter0 should now be considered as a mandatory dependency of Guake. It solves the frozen terminal issue on exit (#1014)

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Travis build cleaned build artifacts before deployment, leading to missing files when built in the CI.

• Don't translate application icon (this finally fixes Guake application icon not being displayed with German locale, which was only partially resolved with #1320)
• Install of Guake through pip install was broken (missing paths.py). Now fixed. Discarded generation of bdist. (fix

• sv (thanks to @MorganAntonsson)
• de (thanks to @rzimmer)
• fr
• ru (thanks Igor "f2404" on Weblate)
• cz (thanks Pavel Borecki on Weblate)
• pl (thanks Piotr Drąg on Weblate)
• it (thanks Maurizio De Santis on Weblate)

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Update about screen's credits

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pip install guake now compiles the gsettings schema and finds its languages automatically.

• Wayland is a bit more well supported. The X11 backend is now used by default for GDK and it seems to make the shortcut works under most situation.

  A more cleaner solution would be to develop a GAction (vote for this feature here])

• A new command has been added: guake-toggle, should be faster than guake -t. You can use it when you register the global shortcut manually (X11 or Wayland).

• Fix transparency regression on ubuntu composite (#1333)
• Fix transparency issue
• Fix right-click on link
• Fix bad css override on check tab background (#1326)
• Fix Guake application icon not displayed with German locale
• fix ctrl+click on hyperlinks on VTE 0.50 (#1295)
• Fixed "Gruvbox Dark" color palette (swapped foreground and background)
• Swapped foreground and background colors for palettes added in commit #58842e9.

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Add option groupes to the bootstrap scripts

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Thanks to @arcticicestudio, a new nice, clean new palette theme is available for Guake users: Nord (#1275)

• Multiline url are sometimes not handled correctly.
• Users of Byobu or Tmux as default shell should disable the "login shell" option (in the "Shell" panel). This uses an option, --login, that does not exist on these two tools.

• Fix duplication in theme list (#1304)
• Fix right click selection in Midnight Commander
• Corrected usage of Vte.Regex.new_for_match to fix regular expression matching (hyperlinks, quick open) on VTE >0.50 (#1295)
• URL with ' (simple quote) and () (parenthesis) are now captured by hyperlink matcher. This may causes some issues with log and so that use parenthesis around hyperlinks, but since parenthesis and quotes are valid characters inside a URL, like for instance URL created by Kibana, they deserve the right to be shown as proper url in Guake.

  User can still select the URL in the terminal if he wishes to capture the exact url, before doing a Ctrl+click or a right click.

  For developers, it is advised to end the URL with a character that cannot be used in URL, such as space, tab, new line. Ending with a dot (.) or a comma (,) will not be seen as part of the URL by Guake, so most logs and traces that adds a dot or a comma at the end of the URL might still work.

• Fix "Grubbox Dark" theme

• fr
• pl
• ru

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Rework the documentation. The README grew up a lot and was hard to use. It has been cut into several user manual pages in the official online documentation.

• Allow user to select the theme within the preference UI
• Selected tab use "selected highlight" color from theme (#1036)

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fr

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Quick open displays a combobox with predefined settings for Visual Studio Code, Atom and Sublime Text.

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Fix hyperlink VTE

• New "start at login" option in the settings (only for GNOME) #251
• Add --verbose/-v parameter to enable debug logging. Please note the existing -v (for version number) has been renamed -V.
• Support for hyperlink VTE extension (described here ) #945 (Untested, as it requires VTE 0.50)
• Add great color palettes from Guake Color Scheme, thanks for @ziyenano :

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Allow application to capture right click (ex: Midnight commander). #1096. It is still possible to show the contextual menu with Shift+right click.

• delete tab even without libutempter (#1198)
• Fix crash when changing command file #1229
• fix import sys in simplegladeapp.py
• change scope of which_align variable in pref.py (#1225)
• Fix several issues on Quick Edit:

• Fix user interface translations #1228
• Some systems such as Ubuntu did displayed Guake with a translated interface (#1209). The locale system has been reworked to fix that.
• There might be broken translations, or not up-to-date language support by Guake. A global refresh of all existing translations would be welcomed. Most has not been updated since the transition to Guake 3, so these languages support might probably be unfunctional or at least partialy localized.
• A big thank you for all the volunteers and Guake enthousiats would often update their own translation to help guake being used world-wide. - Help is always welcomed for updating translations !
• Support for vte 2.91 (0.52) #1222

• fr_FR
• pl
• de

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The setup mecanism has changed a little bit. Some maintainers used to patch the source code of Guake to change the pixmap, Gtk schema or locale paths directly in the guake/globals.py file. This was due to a lack of flexibility of the installation target of the Makefile.

The make install target looks now a little bit more familiar, allowing distribution packager to set the various paths directly with make flags.

For example:

sudo make install \


    prefix=/usr \


    DESTDIR=/path/for/packager \


    PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGE_NAME=site-package \


    localedir=/usr/share/locale

The main overrides are:

I invite package maintainers to open tickets on Github about any other difficulties encountered when packaging Guake.

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Hotfix of #1198 (Ctrl+D in the terminal does not close) and #1014 (guake hangs on exit)

• Apply cursor blinking to new tabs as well, not only on settings change.
• Fix window losefocus hotkey #1080
• Fix refocus if open #1188
• fix preferences window header color, align the close button more nicely and change borders to margins
• Implements a timestamp for wayland (#1215)

• Add window displacement options to move guake away from the screen edges
• User can manually enter the name of the GTK theme it wants Guake to use. Note there is no Preference settings yet, one needs to manually enter the name using dconf-editor, in the key /apps/guake/general/gtk-theme-name. Use a name matching one the folders in /usr/share/themes. Please also considere this is a early adopter features and has only been tested on Ubuntu systems. Dark theme preference can be se with the key /apps/guake/general/gtk-prefer-dark-theme.
• Allow make install-system to be run as non root user and print a message if so.
• Quick open can now open file under selection. Simply select a filename in the current terminal and do a Ctrl+click, if the file path can be found, it will be open in your editor. It allows to virtually open any file path in your terminal (if they are on your local machine), but requires the user to select the file path first, compared to the Quick Open feature that finds file names using regular expression.

  Also notes that is it able to look in the current folder if the selected file name exists, allowing Ctrl+click on relative paths as well.

  Line number syntax is also supported: filename.txt:5 will directly on the 5th line if your Quick Open is set for.

• fixes issue with vertically stacked dual monitors #1162
• Quick Open functionnality is restored #1121
• Unusable Guake with "hide on focus lose" option #1152
• Speed up guake D-Bus communication (command line such as guake -t).

• [dev env] automatically open reno slug after creation for editing
• [dev env]: Add the possibility to terminate guake with Ctrl+c on terminal where Guake has been launched
• Add "Infinite scrolling" option in "Scrolling" panel #274
• Added hotkey for showing and focusing Guake window when it is opened or closed. It is convenient when Guake window are overlapped with another windows and user needs to just showing it without closing and opening it again. #1133

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Quick Edit feature is not working (#1121)

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Remove visible bell feature #1081

• Command options do not work, crash when disabling keybinding #1111
• Do not open Guake window upon startup #1113
• Fix crash on increase/decrease main window height shortcut #1099
• Resolved conflicting default shortcut for Ctrl+F2 (now, rename current tab is set to Ctrl+Shift+R) #1101, #1098
• The hotkey management has been rewriten and is now fully functional
• Rework the Preference window and reorganize the settings. Lot of small issues has been fixed. The Preference window now fits in a 1024x768 screen.
• Fix 'Failed to execute child process "-"' - #1119
• History size spin is fixed and now increment by 1000 steps. Default history value is now set to 1000, because "1024" has no real meaning for end user. #1082

• de
• fr
• ru

• The dependencies of the Guake executable has been slightly better described in README. There is an example for Debian/Ubuntu in the file bootstrap-dev-debian.sh which is the main environment where Guake is developed and tested.
• Package maintainers are encouraged to submit their bootstrap-dev-[distribution].sh, applicable for other distributions, to help users install Guake from source, and other package maintainers.

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Preliminary Dark theme support. To use it, install the 'numix' theme in your system. For example, Ubuntu/Debian users would use sudo apt install numix-gtk-theme.

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Cannot enable or disable the GTK or Dark theme by a preference setting.

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Resizer discontinued

• Fix sudo make uninstall/install to work only with /usr/local
• Fix translation mo file generation
• Fix crash on Wayland
• Fix quick open and open link in terminal
• Fixed Guake initialization on desktop environment that does not support compositing.

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Code cleaning and GNOME desktop file conformance

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Ported to GTK3:

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Guake now use a brand new build system:

• [dev env] reno will be used to generate release notes for Guake starting version 3.0.0. It allows developers to write the right chunk that will appear in the release note directly from their Pull Request.

• Translation might be broken in some language, waiting for the translation file to be updated by volunteers
• Resizer does not work anymore
• Package maintainers have to rework their integration script completely
• quick open and open link in terminal is broken
• Note for package maintainers: Guake 3 has a minor limitation regarding Glib/GTK Schemas files. Guake looks for the gsettings schema inside its data directory. So you will probably need install the schema twice, once in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/guake/data/ and once in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas (see #1064). This is planned to be fixed in Guake 3.1

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Minor rework of the preference window.

• Background picture is no more customizable on each terminal
• Visual Bell has been deprecated

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fr-FR

• #885 revert to the old fixed-width tabs behavior
• move the startup script setting to the hooks tab
• #977 Add a configuration toggle to disable windows refocus
• #970 Right-click tab options don't work properly
• #995 Russian translation
• #983 French translation
• #986 Update German translation

• #793, #876: Execute a script on display event
• #864: Add preference dialog checkbox for toggling 'resizer' visibility
• #885: tabs share the full screen width
• #942: Quick open also matches /home path
• #933: Add -l option to get tab label

• #934: Quick open does not work with dash
• #893, #896, #888: another Unity screen size fix
• Translation update: ja (#875), cn (#955), nl (#931), pt (#895),

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Close a tab with the middle button of the mouse

• Fix error when toggle key was disabled
• Update change news
• Uppercase pallete name
• Fix pylint errors
• Convert README badge to SVG
• Update Japanese translation
• update Russian translation
• updated CS translation
• Update zh_CN translation

• Terminal geometry fixes (#773 @koter84, #775 RedFlames, b36295 myself)
• Fix "changing max tab length" set all tab to same title
• Fix on terminal kill (#636, @coderstephen)
• Typo/Cosmetics (#761, @thuandt)
• Fix the bottom of tab buttons being cut off in Gnome (#786 @lopsided98)
• Fix fullscreen follow mouse (#774 @koter84)
• Option to shorten VTE tab name (#798 @versusvoid)
• Updated translations:

• Add a shortcut to open the last tab (#706, thanks @evgenius)
• Fix icon size on Ubuntu (#734)
• Add tab UUID and selection by UUID (#741, thanks @SoniEx2, @Ozzyboshi)
• Updated Polish (#705), Chinese (#711), German (#732), Brazil Portuguese (#744), Czech (#747)
• Fixed doc (#709, #706)
• Fix some Pep8 issue

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new palette 'Bluloco' (my default one now!) (@uloco)

• tab bar width (@ozzyboshi)
• open new tab in current directory (#578, @Xtreak)
• fix default interpreter (#619, @Xtreak)
• fix use VTE title (#524, @Xtreak)
• Russian tranlation (@vantu5z), german (@Airfunker), spanish (@thardev) chinese (@Xinyu Ng)
• fix guake cannot restore fullscreen (#628, @thardev)

• A Bountysource page exists for requesting new features for Guake.
• before opening a new bug, please search for a similar one in the GitHub Issues .

• rebase on latest HEAD with git pull rebase upstream master
• describe your change in the pull request
• execute the code styling, checks and unit tests using: $ make style check reno-lint test
• add a slug in release note using $ make reno SLUG=<short_name_of_my_feature> and edit the created file in releasenotes/notes/.

  You can see how reno works using pipenv run reno --help. Please use a generic slug (eg, for translation update, use translation)

• Ensure requirements.txt is up to date with the Pipfile.lock, or we will have dev0 version generated
• Merge all translation from Weblate
• Generate the release notes, and updates NEWS.rst with the upcoming release.
• Ensure this pull request build.
• Merge
• Tag with the same version

• GTK: >=3.18
• VTE: 2.91
• libkeybinder3

• GTK: >=3.18
• VTE: 2.91 (>=`0.42 <https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gir1.2-vte-2.91>`_). See doc here
• gir1.2-keybinder-3.0
• gir1.2-notify-0.7
• gir1.2-vte-2.91
• libkeybinder3
• python3-cairo
• python3-dbus
• python3-gi

• libutempter0: compatibility with wall or screen commands
• Any GTK theme: numix-gtk-theme, ...

• Source Code available on GitHub.
• Official Homepage: http://guake-project.org
• Online Documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs.