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A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
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How can I toggle tilda under wayland? #487

Closed alexboutros closed 8 months ago

alexboutros commented 2 years ago

Is there a simple way to get Tilda to toggle using a global shortcut under wayland? I tried using

    dbus-send --session --type=method_call \
              --dest=com.github.lanoxx.tilda.Actions0 \
              /com/github/lanoxx/tilda/Actions0 \
              com.github.lanoxx.tilda.Actions.Toggle

But nothing happens.

I ran dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames but I am not getting any dbus service for Tilda.

vredesbyyrd commented 2 years ago

Just to be sure - did you start your tilda instance with the --dbus flag?

alexboutros commented 2 years ago

Just to be sure - did you start your tilda instance with the --dbus flag?

I think I was, but it was almost a week ago. When I try to run it with that flag now I'm getting Unknown option --dbus from tilda.

Edit: Ah I'm seeing it needs to be compiled with dbus support. I thought it was in the released version. I'll give that a try.

alexboutros commented 2 years ago

Compiling it did the trick.

vredesbyyrd commented 2 years ago

I was just commenting that right now, I believe dbus support is still considered "experimental" and not in a release version yet. Glad it worked out.

suhail-singh commented 8 months ago

@lanoxx would it be possible to merge https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/tree/feature/man-page into master and create something like a 1.6-alpha release (or a 1.6-alpha tag at the very least)?

if creating a release is currently not ideal/not feasible, having the feature/man-page branch being merged into master would still be helpful. if help is needed, i may be able to contribute.

lanoxx commented 8 months ago

The DBus support and the --dbus option are in main but not yet in a stable release. I usually try to get a release ready for a newer Ubuntu LTS, but i lacked the time doing this for 22.04. I will try to get a release out before Ubuntu 24.04 is going into the Debian import freeze in February.

@suhail-singh, I merged feature/man-page just now and a few other changes.

lanoxx commented 8 months ago

@vredesbyyrd, the DBus support should work well as far as I am aware, its just that is only available on master and not yet part of a release. The "experimental" part is that we currently need to fiddle with dbus-send to toggle the terminal, and it would be nice to have some kind of convenient helper inside tilda to trigger a toggle, which is a bit crude. This was actually already in the man page on main and included in commit 3371b2d74750b2ba370be2f124b428577e0a9495.

The is an open pull request, which I will hopefully get reviewed and merged before the next release that should help smooth the DBus integration a bit: https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/pull/495

lanoxx commented 5 months ago

I have tagged tilda 2.0.0 and uploaded a new release to Debian unstable. It should migrate to testing soon and will then sync to Ubuntu 24.04.