The shortcut works for a few days (~100 times) but then the window won't "close", only open. So the only option is to Alt+Tab or to restart the whole system. I have tried so many things, including compiling my own version, but nothing has worked. The problem is very persistent, almost like it's set to happen after X amount of times. This is in fact the only reason I ever have to restart my system. I have the shortcut set to <F1>. I've used that key for other things earlier without issues,and I have tried other keys to compare them w no noticeable difference. This issue is similar to https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10083 except the fact that the area does not become un-clickable. I do however have to do a full system restart for the shortcut to work again. I filed a new bug since that bug was 3 years old.
Is it possible for you to try a gtk3 version - 0.6.90(91) or git? I've closed and opened it around 500 times now, and it's working fine.
I've now tested this on 0.6.3 and 0.6.91 with the same results.
(In reply to Igor from comment #1) > Is it possible for you to try a gtk3 version - 0.6.90(91) or git? > I've closed and opened it around 500 times now, and it's working fine. I've recompiled version 0.6.91 and tested it for five days now, the shortcut stopped working yesterday. I think the fault lies somewhere else because this time it wouldn't even show up when I used the hotkey, I had to click the icon in the xfce4-panel, twice, to make it show. I just noticed that a newer version was uploaded, I'll compile it (0.6.92) and use it all of next week, and get back to you with the results. Thanks!
(In reply to Igor from comment #1) > Is it possible for you to try a gtk3 version - 0.6.90(91) or git? > I've closed and opened it around 500 times now, and it's working fine. After I compiled version 0.6.92 it I forgot to remove the cuser onfig files, and now the keyboard shortcut doesn't even work once. Doesn't that mean that the fault lies with something else, like xfwm?
It seems I can reproduce the issue in Debian system with Xfce under a VM: after a number of times being shown/hidden, the terminal window is not shown anymore though the panel icon is still there. I will investigate the issue, thanks for reporting.
Could you please try the git version? I've just fixed some issues in code, and I think it should be working properly now.
Should be fixed in 0.8.0.