Guake's global shortcut is intercepted by gnome applications

Question

I'm trying the ubuntu 17.10 beta2 to evaluate the new gnome experience.

What I found odd is that guake does not work fine: when the focus is on most applications (including gnome-terminal, gnome settings, OpenOffice, etc) - it (the app) intercepts the guake global shortcut, be it the default F12 or something more exotic like Ctrl+Alt+~. So the guake does not pop up. But some apps (like Google Chrome) behave well and don't intercept it.

It looks like a bug to me, not sure though what app issue tracker to send it to.

So, can it be fixed with some exotic configuration option, or if it's a bug, what repository do I need to report to? The Gnome's one? Or the guake's?

Hi,
I have the same problem but no solution.
– slc66 Nov 03 '17 at 19:09 — slc66, Nov 03 '17 at 19:09
@slc66 I provided a reasonable workaround in the answer. – zerkms Nov 03 '17 at 21:25 — zerkms, Nov 03 '17 at 21:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '17 at 21:24

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As a workaround one may unbind the global F12 (or whatever you have) key in the guake config, then bind it in the gnome native keyboard shortcut configuration: just bind F12 for the /usr/bin/guake command.

The original issue I posted on the gitgub can be found here: https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1012

answered Nov 03 '17 at 21:24

zerkms

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Exact, and You just before have to close Guake to create new shortcut through gnome-control-center. Thank you very much – slc66 Nov 05 '17 at 10:27

Guake's global shortcut is intercepted by gnome applications

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