Strange behaviour using Yakuake on Gnome 43 with Wayland

Hello,

I’m using yakuake on a Fedora 37 with gnome 43 and wayland, but there are some issues that I can’t solve.

For example, when I call it, using the shortcut, the terminal appears wherever place on the it wants to, every boot it appears on a different place on the screen, sometimes correctly, right after below the upper task bar, but sometimes it appears almost on the center of the screen.

But, the most annoying issue is when the cursor shows on the wrong place of the terminal, like for exemple:

[user@machine]$…<cursor starts here>

When this happens, all the output of the terminal is fuzzy, if I run an ls -l or whatever other command, the columns of the output is messy, affecting even when I try to select the text on it.

What can I do?

Thanks

  1. Was it installed from fedora?
  2. Have you tried a reinstall ? or a removal and new install?
  3. yakuake appears to be a kde app and you are using it on gnome. As such it may or may not work properly.
# dnf info yakuake
Last metadata expiration check: 1:22:22 ago on Wed 07 Dec 2022 09:20:37 AM CST.
Available Packages
Name         : yakuake
Version      : 22.08.3
Release      : 1.fc37
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 507 k
Source       : yakuake-22.08.3-1.fc37.src.rpm
Repository   : updates
Summary      : A drop-down terminal emulator
URL          : https://kde.org/applications/system/org.kde.yakuake
License      : GLv2 or GPLv3

Hi Jeff, thank you for your reply.

EDIT: I Forgot to answer directly your questions

  1. Was it installed from fedora?
    Yes, from official repo

  2. Have you tried a reinstall ? or a removal and new install?
    Yes, I just do it, and nothing changed.

  3. yakuake appears to be a kde app and you are using it on gnome. As such it may or may not work properly.
    I am using yakuake for many years on fedora and gnome, until fedora 35, then I upgraded my fedora to 37 and this issues started to happen.

Here is the output of dnf info yakuake:

LANG=C dnf info yakuake
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:53 ago on Wed Dec  7 13:52:53 2022.
Installed Packages
Name         : yakuake
Version      : 22.08.3
Release      : 1.fc37
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 1.9 M
Source       : yakuake-22.08.3-1.fc37.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : updates
Summary      : A drop-down terminal emulator
URL          : https://kde.org/applications/system/org.kde.yakuake
License      : GLv2 or GPLv3
Description  : Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator.

This is probably relevant to one part of the issue:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957657

I see two changes that may be a factor. It will be up to what you wish to do.

  1. Gnome updated from 41 on F35 to 43 on F37
  2. Yakuake updated possibly. I don’t know myself.

Might be worth a bug report after you have removed then reinstalled it if the problems continue.

Might also be an individual config from earlier install which can be checked by creating a new user, then log in as that user and see the performance. If it works properly for the new user then it may be something that is a remanent of the earlier version in your users home directory. If it does not work properly for the new user then it probably would warrant a bug report.

I’ve tested with another user and the cursor issue is gone, which is great, but I’m still having the issue of the place on the screen.

I will see how to open a bug to it.

Thank you.

Yeah, is almost the same problem, but if I understood correctly, that bug was closed as solved.

But I tested even in KDE and the problems still happens.

As I said on another reply, I will see how to open a bug in there.

Thank you.

Turns out I discovered a similar program designed for Gnome, it is Guake.

Works like a charm!

The comment says it was fixed in 5.26.3. I can’t tell version 5.26.3 of what, though. Maybe KDE/Plasma? I see 5.26.4 was pushed to F37 just last week, so best to check if you’ve received this update?

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-b7bcaad78d

If not, best to note on the bug so the maintainers can look into it, especially if its meant to be fixed.

Yeah, I think it is plasma too.

I’m with plasma-desktop-5.26.4-1.fc37.x86_64 installed, perhaps worth it to inform that the bug persist with me.

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