guake terminal wont start

[anexation]

I try to open guake terminal and i get this error. any suggestions?

anex@anex-mint-debian ~ $ guake

** (guake.py:10014): WARNING **: Binding 'F12' failed!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/guake/guake.py", line 1356, in <module>
if not main():
File "/usr/lib/guake/guake.py", line 1299, in main
instance = Guake()
File "/usr/lib/guake/guake.py", line 640, in __init__
notification.show()
glib.GError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

[SiKing]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=glib.GError%3A+GDB ... vice+files

[fromWinToLin]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=glib.GError%3A+GDBus.Error%3Aorg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown%3A+The+name+org.freedesktop.Notifications+was+not+provided+by+any+.service+files

Thank you for providing that extremely helpful response. I was able to troubleshoot and resolve this issue all due to your gracious post...

On a serious note, Guake works under Ubuntu 12.04, but not under Linux Mint 13 MATE. There is yet to be a solution to this problem and no one seems to know how to fix it.

[xircon]

Guake! 0.4.4 working here - LMDE tracking Sid. I am with you, these forums should be the first port of call, when you have a problem, posting LMGTFY links is childish and pathetic and shows no community spirit. And the results shown were as close to useless and old.

Cheers

Steve

[fromWinToLin]

Guake! 0.4.4 working here - LMDE tracking Sid.

For reference, on Linux Mint 13 MATE (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), the version of Guake in the repository is 0.4.2. However, as mentioned earlier, this version works fine under Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity). This is why I suspect it is not Guake that is at fault, but perhaps another package / distro-specific configuration.

In your LMDE setup, which desktop environment are you using? Was Guake not working in the past, yet started working recently due to the updates?

[lizbeth]

Linux Mint 14 Just came out... give it a go?

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2205

[ozmoroz]

If you use MATE, then this solves the problem:

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sudo apt-get install mate-notification-daemon

[rosenred]

On Mint 14 Cinnamon, I changed F12 to F10 and it now works fine. Have no idea whether I broke something else that was using F10 though :/

PS: By default, the Guake entry was unchecked in Startup Applications.