Running Tilda on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

Tilda is my favourite terminal to use on Ubuntu desktop. However, it requires a global hotkey, by default F1, to pull the terminal up and down, which doesn’t work anymore following an upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish).

Why?

Ubuntu 22.04 uses Wayland instead of Xorg display server, and Wayland currently doesn’t allow global hotkeys — and it may never do, as some refer to this functionality as a security feature. As a result Tilda is currently only compatible with Xorg.

To run Tilda on Ubuntu 22.04 you must essentially disable Wayland and use Xorg instead.

Steps

Log out of your Ubuntu session.

On the login screen locate the settings cog in the lower right-hand side corner. Select Ubuntu on Xorg.

To disable Wayland completely, and avoid having to choose display server on login, edit the gdm3 configuration:

sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

find line which reads:

WaylandEnable=true

and change it to:

WaylandEnable=false

then save.

Finally, restart gdm3 for the changes to take effect:

sudo systemctl restart gdm3

Sources

• Tilda on GitHub
• Tilda on GitHub — Issue — Pressing F1 at gnome desktop or at libreoffice or at nautilus window… etc, not working. #474
• How to enable/disable wayland on Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop