Guake disappears if you select "Show Desktop"

[kikecalpe]

Guake disappears if you select "Show Desktop" http://guake.org/ticket/506 Reported by: dsaracini Owned by: somebody Priority: minor Milestone: 0.5.0 Component: guake Version: 1.0 Keywords: Cc:
Description

In Ubuntu 12.04, if you press "Alt + Tab" to move between applications and you select "Show Desktop" while Guake is displayed, then Guake is hiddened and cannot be show again. If you grep the processes (ps -A|grep 'guake') you will not find it. The only solution that I have found to get Guake back is to reboot. :((

[kikecalpe]

Changed by garymm

I have the same problem. ps fx | grep guake works, and killing guake works to bring it back.

[nikkolazo]

Please I have the same problem here, can anyone help us?? =)

[szhuge]

For me, alt-tabbing to "Show Desktop" a second time would reveal Guake again.

[gsemet]

can someone confirm?

[englishdom-com]

Yep. Ubuntu 13.11. It is really annoying bug. Guake was my best terminal.

[gsemet]

On the current head ?

[englishdom-com]

Yes, I have just rebuilt guake. Linux xxx 3.11.0-15-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 30 17:22:01 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[gsemet]

Indeed, I don't reproduce it since I use "hide of focu lose". I can reproduce something similar and I think it is related to various lost guake issues. I'll try to fix it asap

[magemello]

Hi....what is the status of this bug?I have upgraded my ubuntu from 12 to 13 and this bug it's really annoying

[gsemet]

Still not have enough time to code on Guake for the moment, sorry :(

[digitalclutch]

Hey Stibbons. Thanks for the "Hide on lose focus" fix. It completely fixes the problem.

[gsemet]

Confirmed.

[mbondfusion]

Confirmed to happen on Ubuntu 14.04 ... this is my workaround to bring Guake back if I don't want to kill it:

1) Use: xwininfo to find your root window ID

xwininfo -name "Guake!" -int -tree

xwininfo: Window id: 60817461 "Guake!"

Root window id: 143 (the root window) (has no name) Parent window id: 143 (the root window) (has no name) 1 child: 60817462 (has no name): () 1x1+-1+-1 +64+23

2) Use xdotool to reparent the Guake window

xdotool search --name "Guake!" windowreparent 143

[mfrasca]

so it's solved for 0.5, it's a pity ubuntu 14.04 LTS still ships something based on 0.4. @mbondfusion 's workaround works fine, thanks.

[EightArmCode]

This fix did not work for me.

[mfrasca]

this works for me, not to avoid the problem but to fix it:

#!/bin/bash
PARENT=$(xwininfo -name "Guake!" -int -tree | sed -ne '/Root/s/[^0-9]//gp')
xdotool search --name "Guake!" windowreparent $PARENT

only trouble, I must remember I have it, and I hope that naming it like guake-reparent will help me find it when I need it.

[peter-umb]

I can confirm this is still a bug in ubuntu 16.04. alt-tabbing to the hide desktop icon did not bring it back. Is there any way to add an option to allow the icon to show in alt-tab?

[mfrasca]

this is still a bug in ubuntu 16.04

ubuntu 16.04.0 contains guake 0.8.4

[oliver-batchelor]

Priority: Low? Is that some cruel joke?

This bug has been extremely annoying, almost to the point where guake is totally unusable and has cost me a lot of time re-opening terminals.

[gsemet]

Yes I know but this is a bug in GTK2. Won't be fixed until port to GTK3 (which I hope to finish during summer)

[vjrj]

If helps, the workaround in this https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/540#issuecomment-151403225 works for me. I'm using ubuntu 16.04 + yakuake that suffer the same bug.

[daniel-dong]

PARENT=$(xwininfo -name "Guake！" -int -tree | sed -ne '/Root/s/[^0-9]//gp')
xdotool search --name "Guake！" windowreparent $PARENT

This works on Ubuntu 16.04 (Guake 0.8.4). Note it's "Guake！" (full-width exclamation mark) not "Guake!".

[oliver-batchelor]

Yes script is a lifesaver! Thanks!

The priority makes more sense in light of the reason.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Daniel Dong notifications@github.com wrote:

PARENT=$(xwininfo -name "Guake！" -int -tree | sed -ne '/Root/s/[^0-9]//gp') xdotool search --name "Guake！" windowreparent $PARENT

This works on Ubuntu 16.04 (Guake 0.8.4). Note it's "Guake！" (full-width exclamation mark) not "Guake!".

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[mclemme]

Thanks for the windowreparent script, works like a charm on Ubuntu 14.04 and guake 0.4.4-1ubuntu1.

If you don't use the "Show Desktop" option in the alt-tab switcher you can disable it to avoid selecting it by mistake. Install compizconfig-settings-manager:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Launch it from the menu, go to _Ubuntu Unity Plugin_ -> _Switcher tab_ -> Check _Disable Show Desktop in the Switcher_.

[alainwolf]

Tip: If you use quake-indicator add the those two lines to the Menu.

[aichingm]

This seams to be fixed in the GTK3 version.

Closing this issue since 8.x.x is not supported anymore.