Guake: Hotkey for Grab Focus

[kikecalpe]

Hotkey for Grab Focus http://guake.org/ticket/480
Reported by: Nicolas Owned by: somebody
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.5.0
Component: guake Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Description

Hi, this is a very great tool! I use it everywhere - at work, at home, in my dreams... kidding. ;-)

What I miss most is the possibility to grab the guake focus via hotkey, because guake is not in the alt+tab window switcher.

This would be a handy enchancement!

Regards, Nicolas

[smasty]

Just change /usr/share/guake/guake.glide, line 8 to

<property name="skip_taskbar_hint">False</property>

And it will appear in Alt+Tab.

[gsemet]

Why do you want this hotkey?

[steverob]

This shortcut would be awesome as sometimes I would wanna go do something in another app while leaving guake on. So if I need to come back, Im having to press F12 twice to get focus. Or click with mouse which is worse. :+1:

[pypingou]

I did some work a while ago so that if you press F12 and the window is opened it gives focus back to the window instead of hiding it. I don't remember where that went though :cry:

[steverob]

Wow thats a great solution to the problem :+1: Too bad its lost :( :(

[gsemet]

Indeed, that's a pretty simple change to do.

• if window is displayed but not focussed, press on the show/hide hotkey would focus back the window instead of hiding it

[pypingou]

https://github.com/Guake/guake/pull/214 apparently it didn't get lost :D

[gsemet]

I need to rework this, because once you uncheck the "hide on focus loss", guake mess it up, you cannot hide the main window anymore,...

[pypingou]

it's related to this change? that surprises me

[gsemet]

no that's an old bug, I don't have hide of focus loss unchecked on my system so I never saw it

[wranvaud]

Just having the option "Alt+TAB" in the preferences would be awesome

[gsemet]

I do'nt think this will be allowed by your window manager, since it is the standard hotkey for switching app...

[wranvaud]

That's exactly what I would like, switch between apps, including Guake. I've done what smasty suggested to achieve this but a checkbox in preferences would be more user friendly ;)

[MatthiasKauer]

@smasty Is that workaround still functional?
I find a /usr/share/guake/guake.glade (instead of .glide), but it doesn't have that option on line 8. I changed the one I found further down but it didn't seem to help (after restart of guake only). Guake is nowhere to be found in Alt-tab list. This is guake 0.7.2 on debian testing with xfce 4.12.

[smasty]

@MatthiasKauer Yes, it should still work.
In 0.7.2, the line is 378, and yes, the file is /usr/share/guake/guake.glade, there is a typo in my original comment.

[gsemet]

actually guake is made not to appear in alt tab and react only to our magic hotkey....

[MatthiasKauer]

@Stibbons Yes, but if guake is not set to auto-hide I cannot get back into its window without using the mouse otherwise. Are there are other options?
@smasty Thank you!

[silgon]

Got the same problem, whenever the gnome keyring is shown (let's say for a git pull or any ssh activity) guake gets out of focus and then it doesn't come back, so I have to click with the mouse or toggle hide/show twice. My nasty wayaround is a keybinding that does "xdotool click 1", because my mouse is usually in the position of the terminal. I'm using xubuntu 14.04, any news about this topic?

[felipeespic]

No news yet? Having this feature would be really useful.

[denis-gonzo]

I tried to deal with it, and here what I came to:
The reason is that keybinder takes away focus every time when processes the key assigned globally. Therefore, it is impossible to know whether the guake terminal had a focus or any other window when show_hide is executed.

I have an idea around losefocus_time, something like:
if losefocus_time < event_time:
restore_focus()
else:
hide()

I apologize for the Google Translate

[gsemet]

Should be fixed

[felipeespic]

@gsemet

Should be fixed

So what's the solution?

[SergiyKolesnikov]

@felipeespic In Guake Preferences, under Keyboard shortcuts, in the General menu, there is an action "Show and focus Guake window". You can assign a shortcut to it (e.g. Ctrl+F12) and use it to focus a Guake window.