---
name: "guake-indicator"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "guake-indicator"
version: "1.4.5-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/guake-indicator"
---

# guake-indicator(1)

A simple Appindicator that lets you send custom commands to Guake.

## NAME

**guake-indicator** — A simple Appindicator that lets you send custom commands to Guake.

## SYNOPSIS

**guake-indicator**

## DESCRIPTION

**guake-indicator** lets you manage your favorite customized commands establishing a new connection with Guake dropdown terminal.

**guake-indicator** sticks to your "System Tray" and displays data retrieved from the Guake indicator configuration file (see FILES section for more details)

## FILES

**guake-indicator** builds the menu according to *~/.guake.indicator/guake-indicator.xml* XML file

If this configuration file does not exist a default one will be created.

Although Guake indicator has a built-in menu editor, you can customize this file according to your needs with your favorite text editor, just use this schema as a base to add new entries. The fields are self-explanatory, however, I'm going to give you a more in-depth description of each one:

- **menu\_name**

  The name that will show up in the indicator itself

- **tab\_name**

  the name of the guake terminal tab once it is opened (leave black if you don't want automatic autorenaming)

- **command\_after\_login**

  command to send to Guake through his DBUS interface

- **dont\_show\_guake**

  If set to yes, Guake indicator won't ask Guake to display his main window. **open\_in\_tab** The index of the Guake tab where guake-indicator will execute the command.Guake assigns index 0 to the first tab so put in this field the nth tab-1 number. If this tag has the attribute named="yes" it contains the name of the Guake tab **lfcr** If set to yes a LF (Line Feed) + CR (Carriage return) is sent to Guake after each line (by default only a line feed (ascii code 10) is sent. **guakeindicatorscript** If set to yes enables the Guake indicator scripting function

The above xml field are all optional (except menu\_name) and must be stored within a XML Host parent field which in turn is enclosed within a HostGroup field.You can find more information and a xsd validation file at http://guake-indicator.ozzyboshi.com.

## BUGS

Please report any bug to Alessio Garzi \<gun101@email.it\>

## AUTHOR

**guake-indicator** was written by Alessio Garzi \<gun101@email.it\>

This manual page was written by Alessio Garzi \<gun101@email.it\>.