Fedora 16 Yakuake keybinding failure ( retracts but will not dropdown )

Question

On fedora 16 I've installed yakuake, and when I hit F12 ( default keybind ) the terminal retracts, but on hitting F12 again it won't deploy down. Does anyone have a thought as to why F12 isn't being processed properly?

One weird effect that I've seen is that when I hit F12 with a konsole open a tilde is generated on the command line. I've looked at the keybindings for kde & for konsole and nothing is bound to F12.

Answer 1

I just had this problem now, and I had a bunch of shells still running that I didn't want to lose. Here's what I did; you can probably find a cleaner way:

• Run /usr/bin/qdbusviewer (ships with qt-x11)
• Scroll down to org.kde.yakuake on the left hand side of the "Session Bus" tab, click it
• On the right side, navigate to:
  • yakuake/
    • MainWindow_1/
      • com.trolltech.Qt.QWidget
        • Scroll down to "Method: show" and double-click it.

Yay! Doing this made yakuake regain its sanity (i.e. F12 works once again).

Answer 2

I tried the above answer on Ubuntu 12.04, but it didn't work.

In the end, I disabled the open/retract keyboard shortcut from within yakuake, then I set a global keyboard shortcut from Unity->Keyboard, that just executes "yakuake". Fortunately, the authors of yakuake put a listener in place so only a single instance of it can run at a time. When it detects another instance attempting to open, it just triggers the retract/drop-down function. Bravo!