Guake revisted

Remember how I said Guake might have some issues? Well it does, but I don’t blame it, it’s still in alpha stage. When I attempt to run Guake, I get the following error message:

"Guake can not init! Gconf Error. Have you installed guake.schemas properly?"

Since I didn’t compile this from source, but instead install a packaged .deb(deb can be found from the official Guake site,.deb this causes a few conflicts. A few reasons being

1) It doesn’t comply with the Debian policies in where configuration files should be placed. There are two ways to fix this. The long counterintuitive but simple way using Synpatic(or whatever package manager you use) . For all practical purposes I’ll show how it’s done in Synpatic. We’re looking for what directory the guake.schemas file was installed. Search guake in synpatic(Edit>), or ctrl+F.Navigate to properties of the package, look under the Installed Files tab. That way you’ll find exactly what and where the package placed the files. Look for guake.schemas. A command line way, a much quicker way if you don’t want to opt the synpatic mess, is searching it with the slocate/locate/find command. It might take a few instances to index all the files,but it’s my preferred way.

In root type

updatedb

After you’ve indexed your files, search for for guake.schemas, I used slocate:

Contacting the Guake dev, he issued me this command to properly install the schemas file(assumed you’re using GTK)

gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=/usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas/guake.schemas

My guake.schemas wasn’t located in

/usr/local/etc/, but /usr/etc/gconf/schemas/guake.schemas.

Have fun with Guake!
There are other alternatives of Guake, check out Tilda(Added true transparency!) and Yakuake(Yet Another Kuake)for KDE. Guake is just a GTK+ of all these.

Cheers!

-Larry