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I was using Ubuntu 20.04 with Yakuake dropdown terminal. The terminal opens using a keyboard shortcut, e.g. F12. On my old system, the focus was set automatically on the terminal window, so I could just hit F12 and then start typing commands.

After I updated to Ubuntu 22.04, the keyboard shortcut did not work. I found an answer online that keyboard shortcuts are handled differently on Ubuntu 22.04 and the solution was to set a keyboard shortcut in Settings>Keyboard for F12 with yakuake command. That worked to open the terminal, but the focus was still on the previous window. Now I have to click the terminal window to focus it first before I can start typing. Also, I can not just close it using F12 unless I focus it first.

After consulting some other answer on the internet, I tried counter-intuitively disabling the Use Open/Retract action to focus window setting in Yakuake. That fixed the window toggle but the focus problem remains the same.

I also tried to edit the desktop file Exec line in order to run yakuake with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb as per this suggestion: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/hh99xb/workaround_for_yakuake_in_wayland/ but that also did not help with the focus.

Does anybody know how to fix this? Or should I rather switch to some other terminal since Yakuake was afaik built for KDE and X, and not GNOME and WAYLAND. Thanks

Paloha
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Yakuake indeed does not work correctly with Gnome Shell running on Wayland. However, there is a Gnome Shell extension, Yakuake by albertvaka, that circumvents these issues, and allows to use Yakuake as intended.

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