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Are you looking for a nice tool to create drop-down terminal functionality (not all terms support this natively). If so you might find tdrop of interest. It is widely tested and works on almost any DE or wm.

You may access it here:
https://github.com/noctuid/tdrop

I installed via git/sudo make install on MX18. It works wonderfully.

Here are my keybindings (in bspwm):

# drop-down terminal (tdrop)
alt + d
tdrop -ma -w 1024 -y "$PANEL_HEIGHT" --wm bspwm -s dropdown sakura

You know xfce4-terminal has a drop down option?
xfce4-terminal --drop-down
I assign it to F12 but whatever you need.

Nice manyroads handy saves opening a WS just to type a quick command. Thanks for the bspwm command too.
tdrop -ma -w 1024 -y "$PANEL_HEIGHT" --wm bspwm -s dropdown rxvt

kangburra wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:37 am You know xfce4-terminal has a drop down option?
xfce4-terminal --drop-down
I assign it to F12 but whatever you need.

Yep, especially as it's pre-installed with the XFCE desktop - I assign the following to F4:

I just noted something about your super + F1 it automatically changers the commands as I change the keys. Tricky I like that..

All true bbut the thing tdrop does is allows any terminal of terminal multiplexer to become a dropdown. In that manner it is awesome. If you are happy with xfce4-terminal, quake and the like then it is not needed. If you use termite, urxvt, kitty, xterm etc and want a dropdown... well then it is useful.

KoO wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2019 2:43 am I just noted something about your super + F1 it automatically changers the commands as I change the keys. Tricky I like that..

Yep... I borrowed and cludged that from some smart group of people and their comments on reddit.