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Guake / guake

Drop-down terminal for GNOME
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cannot type in guake #952

Open imranashraf opened 7 years ago

imranashraf commented 7 years ago

I have installed guake from default repo, webupd8 repo as well as compiled it from sources, however, when i run guake, i cannot type inside guake. I get some gtk warnings but as such no error. I have same behavior on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu gnome 16.04. It seems like a permission problem. One thing I have noticed is when I installed fresh ubuntu, I created first user and installed guake. With this user I can start and use guake. however, I created another user and seeing this problem while running as second user.

imranashraf commented 7 years ago

Update: When I run guake with sudo, then it works fine, but not as normal user.

imranashraf commented 7 years ago

When I was setting up my machine, I created a dummy rootUser as the first admin user. Later on, I created another user with the same name, uid and gid as my workplace and added it to sudo. This some how causes permission problems which is really strange. Though I do not know the actual cause of the problem but I did reproduce it with the above steps. I solved this problem by creating the first user with the name same as my workplace. Later i changed the uid and gid and file/directly permissions accordingly. This solved the problem and I can now use guake normally.