After upgrading to 21.04, F12 no longer toggles Guake.

[Scott Jacobi]

Description: Ubuntu Hirsute Hippo (development branch)
Release: 21.04

guake:
  Installed: 3.6.3-2
  Candidate: 3.6.3-2

Since upgrading to 21.04, I can no longer use Guake as expected. My F12 key does not appear to function the way it used to. It will not summon the Guake window, and when I manually open it, pressing F12 will not cause the window to hide.

Instead, pressing F12 prints a "~". In fact, many function keys seem to, including F5 through F8, F10, and F12. Interestingly, F11 does successfully toggle Guake in and out of fullscreen mode.

When I check the shortcuts in the Guake Preferences, F12 is mapped to "Toggle Guake visibility". I can undo that mapping, set it to something else, and then successfully remap it to F12. But no matter what I set it to, it won't respond.

I have tried apt purge on all things guake and reinstalled, but it hasn't fixed the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: guake 3.6.3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-14.15-generic 5.11.12
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 16 20:49:19 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-11 (126 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: guake
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-04-15 (1 days ago)

[Scott Jacobi (plotor)]

Seems to be this bug: https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1841

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

This affects me as well, and it's rather frustrating. I guess we will have to wait until there's a new Guake version out that will work with Wayland by default.