Ion had that feature built in; it was called a "scratchpad." In fact, when I was using Ion I had my keybindings such that the Quake-style console would pop up on META+tilda. When I switched to DWM I thought I was going to miss that feature, but it turns out I really don't.
I think the appeal of the Quake-style terminal is for people who mainly use non-tiling window managers and go about their daily computing mostly using the mouse and non-CLI applications. For those people I imagine it's convenient to have a single key access to a term emulator, instead of launching a terminal each time or locating terminal among the mess of windows floating around. As a DWM user, however, I don't find myself needing this feature as I already have a number of term emulators open at all times, and I can conceivably assign an unused tag to terminal for scratch pad use only. So one suggestion would be to have a tag named "~", and assign META+~ to view the tag "~". And assign this tag only to a single xterm, or an emulator of your choosing. I know this won't look as fancy as a standalone Quake-style console that slides down from off-screen and has transparency and whatever, but this would be a simple solution by just using DWM. -voltaic On 8/15/07, Amit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > I'm a very happy camper here at DWM. I've never been more productive! > Thanks to all the developers for such a wonderful job! > > Anyways, I was looking at Quake style terminal emulators > (http://yakuake.uv.ro/). I definitely would find great use for this. > > Any of you DWM users have used Quake style terminals before? Any > suggestions or tips? > > Thanks again, > Amit > >
