Terminal won't drop down when focused on Wayland App

[astrojared]

At least under Ubuntu 17.10 64-bit (in an install upgraded from 17.04 Unity), when in the default GNOME Wayland, Guake will drop down if the focus is on an X-windows system app (like Firefox), but won't drop when in a Wayland app (like Evince). There is no issue when using the GNOME X-session or the Unity X-based session.

[tonyjames]

I am also experiencing this issue on Fedora 27.

[FallingSnow]

This is due to how wayland registers keypresses. Without going into detail about it, you need to register the a shortcut with your DE that will run the guake -t command.

[gsemet]

this means we need to be able to trigger the DE from guake or at least print an error message

[FallingSnow]

I'm not sure I understand why that's necessary. What do you mean by trigger the DE?

[gavincabbage]

@tonyjames I seem to have solved the issue on Fedora 26 w/ @FallingSnow's suggestion if you haven't already seen-

Settings > Keyboard, add a shortcut "guake -t" to whatever key you're already using and it works great. I just tried my best to break it for a few minutes and wasn't able. I was afraid it might duplicate or something but so far nothing of the sort.

Thanks FallingSnow!

[gsemet]

I would be glad if you can add a note on the README about this limitation on fedora

[vvilerio]

It's the same with Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

[Davidy22]

@gavincabbage's solution is the recommended way to resolve this since wayland will probably never budge on global hotkeys.