How do I set preferences for the Guake Terminal?

Question

Just installed guake - terminal emulator.

How can I get to preferences to customize it?

I don't seem to have any if the normal menu's available.

I searched everything on their help site to no avail.

I use Ubuntu 11 (now Ubuntu 16 in 2016)

On my system, I have an icon in the Gnome Panel for Guake, and right-clicking this icon gives me a menu that includes "Preferences", which brings up a big property page with 5 tabs. If you don't have a launcher icon for it, then you may need to use an alternate method as suggested below. — Marty Fried, Sep 08 '12 at 17:40
That doesn't work for me now in 2016 BUT I _can_ right-click from anywhere in the quake terminal itself as shown in my answer below. — Michael Durrant, Sep 05 '16 at 12:37
Great. TBH, it's been so long I had totally forgotten about Quake. Somewhere along the way, I didn't install it and forgot it. Thanks for the reminder. :-) — Marty Fried, Sep 05 '16 at 17:22

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 05 '19 at 14:42

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2016(v16.04) Update: Easiest way is to right-click from within Quake !

Guake preferences can also be set via a separate program.

edited Dec 05 '19 at 14:42

Pablo Bianchi

answered Sep 08 '12 at 17:13

ish

Ahhh, better than my own answer, great! – Michael Durrant Sep 08 '12 at 18:03
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I would like to set guake preferences by a script. Is this possible without clicking in the gui? Where does guake save it's preferences? Can I set it with gsettings or dconf in the cli? Is there a config file I can export or anything similar? – uloco Jan 17 '17 at 15:24

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 05 '19 at 14:51

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Turns out that you use Dconf Editor dconf-editor (which deprecate gnome's configuration editor) like this:

Which can be installed with dconf-editor and found like this:

edited Dec 05 '19 at 14:51

Pablo Bianchi

answered Sep 08 '12 at 17:13

Michael Durrant

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 14 '13 at 13:35

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Another alternate answer to this is

answered Jul 14 '13 at 13:35

AurA

didn't work. requires me to `sudo apt-get install quake` even though I have it already and am using it. I am not doing the `apt-get install` suggested in case it messes up my current quake. – Michael Durrant Mar 14 '15 at 12:27
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@MichaelDurrant I think you've typed quake instead of guake – Taylan Jun 06 '15 at 11:12