Help finding an application

[Guest]

I feel like a noob asking this, but here goes.
The other day I downloaded the latest Gentoo LiveDVD with KDE. As I was playing around with it, I noticed this (feature? app? widget?) that opened up a terminal at the top of my screen whenever I pressed a function button (either F8 or F12). Does anyone know the name of this feature and how I would install it in Kubuntu?

[vinnywright]

Re: Help finding an application

yakuake .......it's in the repo .....I use it

sudo apt-get install yakuake

F12
VINNY

[Guest]

Re: Help finding an application

Awesome, thanks for the help

[sithlord48]

Re: Help finding an application

it feels weird to use a machine with out yakuake..i set the shortcut to crtl+` :P

[vinnywright]

Re: Help finding an application

it feels weird to use a machine with out yakuake..i set the shortcut to crtl+` :P

Hummm set the shortcut what a novel idea ..............currently it's still the default F12 .....witch happens to be the wierless switch unless I use the fn key ......think I;ll use that

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

Re: Help finding an application

The other day I had to perform some maintenance on my wife's Windows computer and reflexively reached for F12 to get a command prompt. I suppose that means I've gone past some kind of no-return point. Oddly enough, I don't feel like looking back.

...cue The Road Not Taken, Randall Thompson's setting of Robert Frost's poem...

[uldo]

Re: Help finding an application

dont know why, but i prefer Guake...