qconsole is a simple application that makes an xterm window behave like the drop-down console on the game "Quake" (and probably many others).

When qconsole is started, it spawns an xterm with the "-into" option to reparent it under qconsole, and then hides it offscreen.

To show the terminal, press Control+O and it will scroll onto the screen. Press it again and it will scroll back off the screen. If the xterm is killed, a new one will be spawned.

The xterm is launched with a name of qconsole. To adjust its colors and font, add xterm X resources to your X resources file (and maybe run xrdb) such as:

	.qconsole*background:           white
	.qconsole*foreground:           black
	.qconsole*internalBorder:       5
	.qconsole*utmpInhibit:          true
	.qconsole*rightScrollBar:       true

To adjust the window height from its default of 1/5 of the screen height, use the -h option. To adjust the speed that the console scrolls, use the -s option (1 to 10, default of 5).