README

Guake README file
=================

INTRO
~~~~~

Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop
environment. Its style of window is based on an fps games, and one of
its goals is be easy to reach.

Guake is written mostly in python and has a little piece in C (global
hotkey stuff). The code is placed in the src directory. Files and
images are in the data directory. If you're looking for translation
stuff, you should take a look at the po directory.


Features? Bugs? Information?
Feel free to consult our website at:
http://guake.org/


LICENSE
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301, USA.


DEPENDENCIES
~~~~~~~~~~~~
 * Python2.4+
 * pygtk2.10 (gtk.StatusIcon)
 * python-vte
 * python-notify
 * python-dbus
 * python-gconf

To build guake, you will need the following packages too:
 * python-dev
 * gtk+-2.0-dev
 * pygtk-dev
 * gconf2-dev (to use some autoconf stuff)

INSTALLATION
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We are using an autotools based installation, so if you got the source
of guake from a release file, please do the following::

    $ gunzip -c guake-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar x
    $ cd guake-x.x.x
    $ ./configure && make
    $ su
    (give the root password here!)
    # make install

If you receive a message asking you if you have installed
guake.schemas properly when launching guake, it means that your
default sysconfdir is different from the one choosen by autotools. To
fix that, you probably have to append the param `--sysconfdir=/etc' to
your `./configure' call, like this::

    $ ./configure --sysconfidir=/etc && make

If it is not enought you can call, you can install the gconf schemas
file by hand doing the following::

    # gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule data/guake.schemas

For more install details, please read the `INSTALL` file.