I3 - Guake not showing as floating window

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I have guake setup in ~/.i3/config as follows:

    for_window [class="Guake"] floating enable
    exec guake

But it always shows up as a tiled window then I press the tilde key..

Any help? Either that or an alternative that will properly configure as a drop down terminal in i3.. Thanks

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I haven't used i3 too terrible much, just messed with it after reading about it in a magazine.

Are you sure you use 'exec' to launch it though? I would think ./guake would work.

You could also look on the archwiki for some bugfixes

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i3 has a scratchpad, simply load a terminal into it, and you're good to go :D (check the config for key bindings) No need for Guake.