Default key to bring up Guake Terminal is F4

Problem: Mac OSX doesn't have eff [F1-12] keys.
Proposed Solution: Make Guake Default key the back tick [`]

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sarahjean’s picture

sarahjean commented

This is not true about Mac OSX. There is a setting you can toggle to use your function keys as real function keys: http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/12/switch-your-mac-function-keys-to-work-as-...

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frob
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I might agree with you if this worked to change the keys only when I'm running VirtualBox. I use some of those keys so I wouldn't want to have to keep switching the keys back and forth.

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mike stewart commented
Assigned: Unassigned » mike stewart

@sarahjean, thanks for the info! These types of information can be useful for new users to Linux. I only recently discovered that MAC users should change their keyboard layout in Ubuntu (such as, System Settings > Keyboard Layout: Add "English (Macintosh)" -- the same is probably true for users of computers with layouts not based on US English)

Regarding this request, I tend to favor using: ` instead of F4 -- which on a lot of Mac and even PC's apparently often requires using two+ keys. Plus the tick mark is a sort of nod to the origin of the HUD/Terminal from the game Quake -- which was the inspiration for the name Guake.

Anyone have other suggestions?

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firfin commented

While I find the idea of a nod to quake charming, I have to disagree. In quake the ` isn't actually used for anything else. In php sometimes you do use it.
Even more so in mysql and mariadb. See for instance Quoting MySQL & MariaDB identifiers

I also wonder what would happen with ~ ( shift + ` ).

Bad idea, I think.
Surely there is some kind of plugin or shortcut in mac for quickly switching. Or else we could just provide the instruction on how to remap it to ` if people really want that?

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frob
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~ is used for the user's home directory.

mike stewart’s picture

mike stewart commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

F12 is the default for guake, as well as finalterm (which is awesome, by the way, and the likely replacement for guake in a future version).

The problem is that not all keyoard layouts are equal.

However, the solution is that no matter the default not eveyone will be pleased and this can EASILY customized by the user (right click on guake).

F12 is the default used by firebug (which has been used by themers for years).
' - I now feel backtick is used in shell scripts and mysql too often for my taste

I'm going to leave the drupalpro default for guake as F4, since F12 is used by firebug, since what I perceive as the minority of users that care, can easily change this setting. Please chime in if you have a better solution.

edit: fix name and add link to finalterm. tone down a sentence.