Yakuake

Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE's Konsole technology.

Features

• Smoothly rolls down from the top of your screen
• Tabbed interface
• Configurable dimensions and animation speed
• Skinnable
• Sophisticated DCOP / D-Bus interface

Yakuake is part of KDE Extragear.

Problems

The F12 key is sometimes used by a desktop search application. If you meet this, change it to Ctrl+Shift+F12