I had to reinstall Ubuntu and always used Guake Terminal and it was always starting when the desktop appeared and I only pressed F12 and it did everything I had to.
But now it doesn't start automatically. I was looking for an answer but nothing worked. Has anybody ideas how to solve it ? It would be really nice to use it as earlier ;)
Goto Activities or to Show Applications menu and type Startup Applications.
The Startup Application Preferences window opens. Then, click in Add, give a name for the application in the Name field ("Guake" it's enough), and then type “guake” without quotes in the Command field and click Add. Then close the Startup Application Preferences window and restart the machine, now Guake should start automatically on login.
Have you tried adding it to the startup applications (search "startup applications")
If you have, try adding a .desktop file to /etc/xdg/autostart/
You can do this with the following command
sudo ln -s /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
This is just an example, I don't know what the guake .desktop file is named but you can easily find out by having a look in the map: /usr/share/applications/
If by chance that doesn't work as well then there is one other solution you could try adding the following command to the startup applications
bash -c "sleep 10 && guake"
If it doesn't work try varying the sleep time because it depends on your system's speed but usually 10 seconds will work just fine.
Use this:
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
This helps for me:
Guake Doesn't Start When Session Starts
In Guake's preferences just uncheck Enable notifications on startup, and add the full path (e.g. `/usr/bin/guake) to startup applications.
locate guake.desktop then do,
$ cp /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
$ echo "X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true" >> guake.desktop
You may rather use guake --hide at startup for just opening the prgrm in background and not the terminal window until F12 is pressed.
