Guake: Terminal doesn't stretch across screen

[logileifs]

Since last update guake terminal stopped stretching across the whole screen. Main window width is set to max but still it stops before it reaches the far right of screen area.

[Richard-Payne]

Coincidentally, the amount it is short is exactly the same width of the launcher. I would guess that the new ability to re-position the launcher to the bottom has broken a bit of hard coding in the width calculation.

[gsemet]

which linux do you have?

[Richard-Payne]

I saw it on Ubuntu 16.04. You don't normally notice because guake fits perfects with the launcher in its default position to the left of the screen. However, if you switch the launcher to the bottom of the screen then you see what logileifs screenshot shows.

[gsemet]

I have this configuration and not this issue. Can you start guake from a command line and copy paste the logging text when you display the terminal? It should print information about screen size

[logileifs]

It's happening for me on Ubuntu 14.04 with gnome classic (no unity panel)

[m3adow]

Isn't this identical to #565?

[logileifs]

@m3adow seems like the same issue but it only appeared for me in the last update, hadn't been affecting me since 2015 like in #565

[m3adow]

I assume this has something to do with Ubuntu, as I've recently encountered a similar problem with Tilda.

[logileifs]

okay after reading a little bit about the issue I found a workaround, I set the behavior of the Unity launcher to auto-hide = true. With that setting on, guake now fills _almost_ entire screen

[ziflex]

Same on Fedora 25 with Xorg

[ziflex]

But when add a new tab the width gets fixed until I reopen the terminal.

[ziermmar]

@ziflex Same here. Guake doesn't fill the whole screen width, but as soon as I open a new terminal tab, it resizes to full width and also stays that way even when switching between terminal tabs.

(Guake 0.8.8 on Gnome 3.24.1 on Xorg 1.19.3 on Archlinux, 2 Monitors, Hotkey: SHIFT+^) @

[alexanderczigler]

I have the same issue as @ziflex and @ziermmar, is there any solution for this?

[pensnarik]

I have the same bug after upgrading to 17.10. I have two displays.

[pensnarik]

Here is a little patch (guake_app.py) for those who uses Ubuntu 17.10:

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<             if os.environ.get('XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP', '').lower() == "unity".lower():
---
>             if os.environ.get('XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP', '').lower() == "unity".lower() or \
>                os.environ.get('DESKTOP_SESSION', '').lower() == "ubuntu".lower():
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>                     if float(platform.linux_distribution()[1]) + 0.01 >= 17.10:
>                         unity_dock += 24

For me it helped.

[gsemet]

I don't see a distinction for users without 2 screens, won't it affect eve users that only have 1 screen

[pensnarik]

I think the problem is that method is_using_unity() does not recognize unity in Ubuntu 17.10 because $DESKTOP_SESSION variable == ubuntu, not unity.

[gsemet]

weird, I don't have this issue on mine

[pensnarik]

@gsemet could you please show the values of $DESKTOP_SESSION and $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variables?

[gsemet]

on ubuntu 16.04:

$DESKTOP_SESSION = "ubuntu"
$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="Unity"

For 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04, you'll have to wait this evening I go back to house :)

[pensnarik]

On Ubuntu 17.10:

$DESKTOP_SESSION = "ubuntu"
$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP = "ubuntu:Gnome"

I think, that is the point.

[patriczek]

I have this problem on Fedora 26 and 27 as well

[OBellon]

Hello,

I was able to solve this issue following the next steps:

1. locate guake_app.py
2. Open that file with an editor, in my case: sudo vim /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/guake/guake_app.py
3. Comment the if block that follows # launcher_hide_mode = 1 => autohide
   
4. Kill guake process, or logout from your session.
5. Init guake again

That solved the issue for me. Let me know if you need something else.
Thanks @logileifs for pointing me in the right direction.

[gsemet]

hello. I would need a way to conditionalize this code section in your system. something like

if do_i_need_to_spread_accross_two_screens(...):
  ...

[OBellon]

Could you give me a background to know what is the problem?
Isn't self.window.get_screen().get_n_monitors() enough to know if there are two screens?

[gsemet]

yes but i don't always want guake to span accross 2 screens.

[ivancarlosnieva]

I have Ubuntu 17.10. Guake was looking good until i plugged another screen.
I solved it changing 17.10 instead of 12.10 in the file guake_app.py, line 1030
line 1030:
if float(platform.linux_distribution()[1]) + 0.01 >= 17.10: