Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. It's a KDE Extragear application released under GPL v2, GPL v3 or any later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. The current maintainer of Yakuake is Eike Hein . The Yakuake website is located at: http://yakuake.kde.org/ Report bugs and wishes at: http://bugs.kde.org/ You can browse the latest and older sources at: http://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/utils/yakuake/repository Yakuake requires kdelibs and Konsole from KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 or higher. Basic build and installation instructions: 1. tar xfvj yakuake-.tar.bz2 2. cd yakuake- 3. mkdir build 4. cd build 5. cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= ../ 6. make 7. sudo make install For more, please see the KDE Techbase wiki (http://techbase.kde.org/) and the CMake documentation (at http://www.cmake.org/).