[gentoo-user] x11-terms/terminator and hide_window shortcut key

[gentoo-user] x11-terms/terminator and hide_window shortcut key

[Mark David Dumlao]

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Terminator is a nice app that allows you to have multiple terminals in a
single window, paned, tabbed, searchable, grouped to receive a single input,
etc etc.

It also advertizes that it allows you to show/hide window with a global
shortcut key, essentially making it a quake-style terminal replacement++.
I've been using it for quite a while but I haven't actually gotten the
shortcut key to work. Even without the shortcut key, it's all kinds of
awesome, though.

Terminator claims it depends on python-keybinder for the show/hide function
to work, but even after installing dev-libs/keybinder +python, pressing the
show/hide window shortcut doesnt seem to do anything. Well, today's not a
bad day to try something new: does anyone use terminator, and if so, has
anyone ever gotten the show/hide shortcut key to work?
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Re: [gentoo-user] x11-terms/terminator and hide_window shortcut key

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:12:57PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> Terminator claims it depends on python-keybinder for the show/hide function
> to work, but even after installing dev-libs/keybinder +python, pressing the
> show/hide window shortcut doesnt seem to do anything. Well, today's not a
> bad day to try something new: does anyone use terminator, and if so, has
> anyone ever gotten the show/hide shortcut key to work?

Where do you see this information about show/hide window shortcut? I
don't see it in the man page
  http://www.tenshu.net/wp-content/uploads/terminator.html

A bit more searching shows that to be possibly a recent patch? 
  https://code.launchpad.net/~peterbjorgensen/terminator/dropdown
Does the gentoo install actually include that patch? (I think not. The
gentoo install uses the 0.95 sources which was released on August last
year, whereas the merge of the dropdown patch into trunk on launchpad
was approved in October.) Maybe you just need to wait until the 0.96
version. 

Cheers, 

W
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