Open Guake Terminal Here - Nemo Plugin

Guake Terminal is a sexy drop down terminal for Gnome. As a software engineer, I need to open terminal from the file manager in my case which is Nemo in order to do various tasks in the directory itself. Even though Open in Terminal plugin is there, which is assigned to Gnome Terminal by default I was searching for another terminal for small tasks which do not open multiple instances of terminal like Open in Terminal. The Nemo Terminal seemed to be promising but quickly I was tired of it. In this post, I am sharing my hack to open Guake terminal from especially using a keyboard shortcut. It will not pollute your desktop by multiple instances of Terminal, instead, it will use the same tab again and again. Remember that if you want to execute time taking tasks in Guake, better to open them in a new tab.

Note: You need Nemo Python plugin and Guake Terminal to use this plugin.

Step 1: Deploy the script

Execute the following command to deploy the script:

sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/slgobinath/ubuntu-tweaks/master/open-terminal-here/open-terminal-here.py --output-document /usr/share/nemo-python/extensions/open-terminal-here.py

Find the actual script here for verification.

Execute the following command to restart Nemo

nemo -q

Step 2: Setup shortcut

Enter the following command in a Terminal

gedit ~/.gnome2/accels/nemo

Search for NemoPython::open_terminal_item and modify the line as shown below

(gtk_accel_path “<Actions>/ExtensionsMenuGroup/NemoPython::open_terminal_item” “<Shift>F12”)

Execute the following command to restart Nemo

nemo -q

Now open any directories in Nemo and press Shift + F12 or right click and select “Open Terminal Here” to open it in Guake Terminal.