If you’re a Linux user like me, there’s a good chance that you like to drop into the terminal for a lot of stuff; I just find it easier to open a terminal and type ‘cp /tmp/file ~’ than open up my graphical file manager and copy the file that way. The problem with this setup is that you wind up with about 20 terminals after a while; although they don’t take up much resources, it can be annoying when you’re alt-tabbing through windows and you have to skip through all those terminals. While there are solutions that make multiple terminals fit in the space of one (such as tabbed terminals or using screen to have multiple terminals in one), another solution avoids the problem entirely by having a single keyboard shortcut open and close a terminal; if you’ve ever played a first-person shooter game on a PC with a console, you’ll know the sort. And even though, strictly speaking, it’s a KDE app, it works fine on GNOME.

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