11.10gnomegnome-shellgnome-shell-extension
Problem
I've upgraded to 11.10 today, and have been toying with gnome-shell extensions – gnome-shell version 3.2.0.
When it comes to add one to the top panel, I have hit a brick wall. Right-clicking on the panel does nothing.
Am I doing something wrong – is one supposed to add extensions to the top panel by some other method?
Tried
alt while right-clicking on top panel3D Acceleration is "experimental" in VB and may not be properly supported. Also which version of Virtual Box are you using. The Open Source version doesn't seem to support all the functions of the one downloaded off the site.
I don't like suggesting closed source, but your situation may call for it.
Also I'm going to try running sudo apt-get install gnome-shell on my 11.10 machine and see what it looks like. There's still the possibility that it's not VB.
The error message you are reporting with gnome-tweak-tool occurs when either logging into Gnome-Classic or if logging into Gnome-Shell - but it doesnt allow a full Gnome-Shell GUI but reverts to Gnome-fallback.
From your latest edit - this is the case - the screenshot shows that you are using gnome-fallback. This occurs when 3D acceleration fails.
N.B. Gnome-Shell should look like:
To get the full Gnome-Shell GUI, check that your virtualbox settings have 3D acceleration checked, 128MB VGA RAM and that your host graphics supports 3D Hardware acceleration.
Best Answer
you can't add extensions by right clicking the panel. You have to create a dir in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/extension_name@your_host
and create there 2 files: extension.js and metadata.json
and add code to whatever you want to add onto panel to extension.js and some info into metadata.json
in gnome-shell 3.0.x in .js you have to add function main() { } in gnome-shell 3.2.x: function enable() { /* code to execute on enabling this extension */ } function disable() { } and function init() { }