quake with gnome-terminal 3.10 or later

[elw00d]

Hello ! I've experienced with issue when migrated from Ubuntu 14.04 with awesomewm 4.0 to 16.04 and 4.2 respectively.

2017-08-23 12:05:51 W: awesome: luaA_dofunction:77: error while running function!
stack traceback:
	/home/elwood/.config/awesome/lain/util/quake.lua:165: in function 'toggle'
	/home/elwood/.config/awesome/rc.lua:364: in function 'press'
	/usr/local/share/awesome/lib/awful/key.lua:91: in function </usr/local/share/awesome/lib/awful/key.lua:91>
error: /home/elwood/.config/awesome/lain/util/quake.lua:165: attempt to index a nil value

My configuration

s.quake = lain.util.quake({ 
        app = 'gnome-terminal',
        extra = "--disable-factory --profile=Quake",  -- Fixes gnome-terminal's unwanted existing windows reusing behavior
        argname = "--name %s",
        height = 0.653, -- To exactly match with gnome-terminal 'resolution' in laptop mode
        border = 3,
	followtag = true
    })

awesome v4.2 (Human after all)
• Compiled against Lua 5.2.4 (running with Lua 5.2)
• D-Bus support: ✔
• execinfo support: ✔
• xcb-randr version: 1.4
• LGI version: 0.9.0

[lcpz]

They removed disable-factory, so it's not possible anymore to have a single gnome-terminal to spawn and use with quake.

In order to make it work again, the logic should focus on PIDs instead of window clients, but that would require to avoid Awesome API and go down to the OS level, which frankly is a bad workflow.

Terminals like gnome-terminal and konsole are too dependent on the DE they belong to, therefore it's improbable that they can adapt to anything different.

But the good news is: you really don't need them. There's plenty of much better and faster terminals, even VTE-based. I suggest termite, otherwise pick one from here, besides the above cited, of course, and yakuake or guake, which constrast in behaviour with quake.

I will update the wiki.