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I have the problem described here: i.e. shortcut keys (Shift Ctrl up) suddenly not working.

The solution is, apparently: "you should manually fix the value of the DConf key /apps/guake/keybindings/global/show_hide"

but i cannot find this in gconf-editor as they suggest. (I installed guake using ppa:linuxuprising/guake). Thus i cannot fix it manually

Update: I changed the shortcut key to something arbitrary, i.e. from Ctrl shift up to alt pgup and then the old shortcut key started working, i.e. Ctrl+shift+up now works (even though the preferences in GUI indicate alt pgup). I did the same for Ctrl+shift+down (changed to alt left-arrow) and now it works again. I then changed it back and repeated to confirm the behaviors.

Pablo Bianchi
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  • I don't know which action that shortcut it suppose to trigger. That's a dconf database path: dconf read /apps/guake/keybindings/global/show-hide. Use write to set any other value ('F12' by default). Maybe you mean to this issue, Toggling Guake visibility does not work (Wayland). You could create a shortcut to guake-toggle or guake -t. – Pablo Bianchi Apr 20 '22 at 18:52
  • thanks a lot. I didn't know about dconf, i just installed gconf-editor but /apps/guake/keybindings does not appear, I can't navigate to it. I will try using 'write' instead as you suggest. My issue isn't the "toggle guake visibility" issue, f12 is working fine, but within the terminal the usual "ctrl+shift+up arrow" does not scroll up as it normally does – neverdimed Apr 20 '22 at 19:59
  • @PabloBianchi i ran "dconf write /apps/guake/keybindings/global/show-hide" and it says: (dconf:24745): GLib-CRITICAL **: 22:02:43.985: g_variant_parse: assertion 'text != NULL' failed i should mention: i installed guake using ppa:linuxuprising/guake – neverdimed Apr 20 '22 at 20:02
  • Read carefully the command you're running. You are writing nothing/null to that path. I don't know anything about that PPA, please uninstall and remove everything and install the official way. These ones doesn't work? – Pablo Bianchi Apr 20 '22 at 21:53
  • it is the official way: https://guake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/installing.html#system-wide-installation Re nothing/null to path: I thought i just ran what you indicated. In any case, the path doesnt exist, i knew it was futile – neverdimed Apr 20 '22 at 21:56

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