plasma-drop: Yakuake-style dropdown for any app
Tired of Yakuake being terminal-only? I've wrote a plasma-drop app - a KDE Plasma 6 dropdown launcher that brings Yakuake behavior to any app you want: Dolphin, Kate, Firefox, whatever. It started as a personal replacement of WTQ, tested on myself, so decided to share it.
Similar to other apps - just hit hotkey (e.g., Super+F9), and your app slides down from the top. Hit it again, it hides. No fancy UI, no heavy electron bloat, just dropdown windows that feel right.
Why it's cool:
- Lightweight. Runs as a systemd --user service consuming basically nothing
- No GUI. Config is just TOML - two minutes to set up
- Works with anything. Terminal, file manager, browser, Telegram - whatever you throw at it
- Global hotkeys. Registers via KWin so there's no conflicts
- Smart launching. Finds existing windows or starts them fresh
- Should work well in multi-display environment
Quick setup (more installation methods on github):
cargo install --locked plasma-drop
plasma-drop init --systemd
systemctl --user enable --now plasma-drop.service
Then edit ~/.config/plasma-drop/config.toml (examples included) with your apps and hotkeys. Done.
Open source, GPL-3.0. Inspired by windows-terminal-quake, but KDE-native and extensible to any app.
Only works on: KDE Plasma 6 + Wayland (no X11, sorry, PRs welcome)
Try it out and contribute on GitHub: https://github.com/SkeLLLa/plasma-drop