[closed] Guake (dropdown terminal) does not open with keyboard shortcut

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Hello,

I just installed Guake (Dropdown Terminal) on my Dell LatitudeE7440 with Gnome Desktop. Unfortunately I can not open Guake with my keyboard shortcut. Have of course tried other keyboard shortcuts and tried other dropdown terminals (Tilda,ddterm) as alternatives. But with all of them the keyboard shortcut does not work.

I get the following error when running it on the console:

Guake not running, starting it
Guake Terminal 3.6.3
VTE 0.64.2
Gtk 3.24.30

(guake:3594): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:37:28.794: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
created fresh notebook for workspace 0
Spawning new terminal at /home/bavramor

(guake:3594): VTE-WARNING **: 21:37:28.798: (../src/vtepty.cc:666):bool _vte_pty_spawn_sync(VtePty*, const char*, const char* const*, const char* const*, GSpawnFlags, GSpawnChildSetupFunc, gpointer, GDestroyNotify, GPid*, int, GCancellable*, GError**): runtime check failed: ((spawn_flags & ignored_spawn_flags()) == 0)
current workspace is 0

** (guake:3594): WARNING **: 21:37:28.830: Binding 'F12' failed!
can't bind show-focus key
Spawning new terminal at /home/bavramor

(guake:3594): VTE-WARNING **: 21:37:28.952: (../src/vtepty.cc:666):bool _vte_pty_spawn_sync(VtePty*, const char*, const char* const*, const char* const*, GSpawnFlags, GSpawnChildSetupFunc, gpointer, GDestroyNotify, GPid*, int, GCancellable*, GError**): runtime check failed: ((spawn_flags & ignored_spawn_flags()) == 0)
Guake tabs restored from /home/bavramor/.config/guake/session.json
Guake initialized
Guake tabs saved to /home/bavramor/.config/guake/session.json

Would appreciate any help.

Thanks

Bavra

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Frequently Asked Questions — Guake 1.0 documentation, the very first item.
Disable the non-working shortcut in Guake itself, instead add a custom media shortcut in Gnome Settings that runs guake-toggle, problem solved.

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You saved my day. Thank you very much. Works great.