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#1 2025-10-09 09:18:55

Trit
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Registered: 2022-12-29
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Guake: F12 shortcut not working after updating xkeyboard-config

Hi!

I use the “Quake-like” pop-up terminal Guake on my two Arch systems with XFCE, and I noticed today that the default keyboard shortcut F12 to show/hide the pop-up does not work anymore (F12 still works to open/hide developer tools in Web browser, though).

AFAIK, the only change I made on my system is installing the latest xkeyboard-config update, last night:

[2025-10-09T01:47:40+0200] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S -u -y --config /etc/pacman.conf --'
[2025-10-09T01:47:40+0200] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2025-10-09T01:47:41+0200] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2025-10-09T01:47:57+0200] [ALPM] transaction started
[2025-10-09T01:47:58+0200] [ALPM] upgraded imath (3.2.1-1 -> 3.2.2-1)
[2025-10-09T01:47:58+0200] [ALPM] upgraded libgpg-error (1.55-1 -> 1.56-1)
[2025-10-09T01:47:58+0200] [ALPM] upgraded openexr (3.4.0-1 -> 3.4.1-1)
[2025-10-09T01:48:07+0200] [ALPM] upgraded python-pyqt5-sip (12.17.0-1 -> 12.17.1-1)
[2025-10-09T01:48:07+0200] [ALPM] upgraded xkeyboard-config (2.45-1 -> 2.46-1)
[2025-10-09T01:48:08+0200] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2025-10-09T01:48:08+0200] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...
[2025-10-09T01:48:08+0200] [ALPM] running 'texinfo-install.hook'...

I could find a workaround with changing the default shortcut to Shift-F12, but I can’t explain why Guake can’t use its default shortcut anymore (it shows a notification error at launch about that), nor I would know what changes were made on xkeyboard-config’s side.

Last edited by Trit (2025-10-09 09:20:27)

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#2 2025-10-09 19:57:32

seth
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Re: Guake: F12 shortcut not working after updating xkeyboard-config

Does downgrading xkeyboard-config actually fix it?

Nb. that if F12 was (ever) assigned to a global shortcut, it would not be (have been) available for "open/hide developer tools in Web browser" or similar actions.
xkeyboard-config provides keymaps and geometries - F12 all out of a sudden triggering F13 would be a possible bug there, but disfunctional global shortcut assignment of otherwise functional keys sounds unlikely.

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#3 2025-10-09 21:22:11

Guzzista
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Registered: 2014-06-02
Posts: 14

Re: Guake: F12 shortcut not working after updating xkeyboard-config

My workaround has been to bind F12 to `guake-toggle` in the DE keyboard settings. It is not a proper solution, but does the job

Last edited by Guzzista (2025-10-09 21:25:12)

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