Hot spot customization

[Wade Smart]

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On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 18:22:11 -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
>>I was using my friends Kubuntu laptop and when you move your
>>cursor towards the top of the screen a large terminal drops down.
>>Hot Corners only has a few uses. After some searching Im not
>>really finding anything about this type of customization. Anyone
>>know of any?
>
> IIUC you cannot or do not want to use hot corners for that purpose.
>
> If so, perhgaps a drop-down terminal could be configuared to do that by
> a mouse movement, instead of using a keyboard shortcut.
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/yakuake
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/tilda
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/guake
>
> Or assign any terminal to a mouse gesture recognition program and use a
> window manager/desktop environment that provides such an animation,
> when opening an app.
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/easystroke
>

I finally came across guake and installed it. We'll see how that goes.
Thanks