6

I have several Gnome shell extensions that are suddenly disabled since the last reboot and cannot be enabled. I have not made any changes to the system (not consciously). All of the extensions worked before.

I see all extensions under extensions.gnome.org. They can be installed and uninstalled. They can apparently(!) also be activated/deactivated but in fact they are not activated and after reloading the page you also see that the state of the extension is back in the initial state.

Screenshot of extensions.gnome.org -> extensions that can't be enabled/disabled

Does anyone have an idea what I could try? There is not a single error message anywhere.

  • OS: Pop 20.10 groovy
  • Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.8.0-7630-generic
  • GNOME Shell 3.38.2

The same behavior in Firefox and in Chrome.

This is my first post here. If something is missing or I can improve something in my request, I am happy to receive suggestions for improvement. Thank you very much.

Improve this question

4 Answers 4

Reset to default
5

You should have a look to Gnome Tweaks. I'm not familiar with PopOS but you can install it with one of the following commands

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

or

sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool

Then you can activate the extensions you like:

enter image description here

Improve this answer
1
  • 2
    This actually helped solving the problem. I installed it and by activating the button on the upper right corner, everything started working again. Somehow the whole extensions-thing was disabled. Don't know how that happened. 🤷 Now it's working again so thank you very much!! 😁👍
    – prebiz
    Jan 20, 2021 at 10:08
6

On ubuntu 22.04 you may need to start the extensions program, and re-enable extensions using the top-right slider.

enter image description here

Improve this answer
2
  • This was the fix for me. Windows Key => "Extensions" => enable => life back to normal. Thx!!
    – bas
    Feb 15, 2023 at 18:02
  • 1
    On Ubuntu 22.04, I needed to apt install gnome-shell-extensions (which was missing). This enabled the above behaviour for me! Thanks!
    – JonTheNiceGuy
    May 1, 2023 at 10:16
0

Since Pop! OS is Ubuntu-based, take a look in the Synaptic Package Manager (SPM), which will inform you if packages are damaged or have missing dependencies, and show the terminal command to repair them. The following two I usually find sufficient to fix most issues, and can be run without SPM.

sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
sudo dpkg --configure -a

See the Linux Shout article, above, for more repair suggestions.

Improve this answer
3
  • Unfortunately this did not work because "[...] update does not accept arguments" But thank you for helping anyway!
    – prebiz
    Jan 20, 2021 at 10:06
  • @prebiz there was an issue in code formatting, – (en dash) appears instead of -- (two regular dashes).
    – A.L
    Apr 15, 2021 at 12:45
  • 1
    @A.L, thanks for catching that! Some app along the path of cutting and pasting changed that hype to an en-dash, and I'd never have caught the issue, myself.
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Apr 15, 2021 at 21:31
0

When an extension is loaded the dconf parameter /org/gnome/shell/enabled-extensions is modified but dconf configuration could be locked using:

/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks

Modify the contained files and then:

dconf update
Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .