Here is the situation. Changed unity shell to gnome shell. Installed the gnome tweak tool, installed the shell extension, themes, etc…everything i normally need to do that is installed
When i go to gnome tweak tool, and click on shell extension, the right list is empty
I've surfed the web and questions for answer. Yes, i did restart my pc after installing everything, even restarted a couple of time.
Yes, i clicked the cog and chose GNOME instead of Ubuntu.
To no avail, i can't seem to see what is supposed to be on that right menu. I saw some screenshot, and i know it is supposed to be filled with radio buttons and such
I've tried the suggested answer here – Gnome Tweak Tool does not show extensions but this is the result:
cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/: No such file or directory
I installed the following gnome-shell extensions which are not appearing in gnome-tweak-tool:
gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu
gnome-shell-extensions-common
gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme
All of that info gotten from Synaptic, which i also installed!
All package were installed in root mode, updates and upgrades done
Also, the terminal just popped an error as i tryied to get into the tweak tool, first time it pop me the error:
CRITICAL: Error parsing schema org.gnome.shell (/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.shell.gschema.xml)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gsettings.py", line 45, in __init__
summary = key.getElementsByTagName("summary")[0].childNodes[0].data
IndexError: list index out of range
WARNING : Shell not running
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell.py", line 57, in __init__
self._shell = GnomeShellFactory().get_shell()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/utils.py", line 38, in getinstance
instances[cls] = cls()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py", line 123, in __init__
v = map(int,proxy.version.split("."))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py", line 46, in version
return json.loads(self.execute_js('const Config = imports.misc.config; Config.PACKAGE_VERSION'))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py", line 39, in execute_js
result, output = self.proxy.Eval('(s)', js)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gio.py", line 148, in __call__
kwargs.get('flags', 0), kwargs.get('timeout', -1), None)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 43, in function
return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
GError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Shell was not provided by any .service files
WARNING : Could not list shell extensions
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell.py", line 62, in __init__
extensions = self._shell.list_extensions()
AttributeError: ShellThemeTweak instance has no attribute '_shell'
WARNING : Error detecting shell
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell_extensions.py", line 145, in __init__
shell = GnomeShellFactory().get_shell()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/utils.py", line 38, in getinstance
instances[cls] = cls()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py", line 123, in __init__
v = map(int,proxy.version.split("."))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py", line 46, in version
return json.loads(self.execute_js('const Config = imports.misc.config; Config.PACKAGE_VERSION'))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py", line 39, in execute_js
result, output = self.proxy.Eval('(s)', js)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gio.py", line 148, in __call__
kwargs.get('flags', 0), kwargs.get('timeout', -1), None)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 43, in function
return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
GError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Shell was not provided by any .service files
(gnome-tweak-tool:2327): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion `width >= 0' failed
I also tryied "sudo apt-get remove gnome-tweak-tool" and "sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool" to no avail. Still the same long error message
Help?
EDIT:
I have scrapped the whole virtual machine, and reinstalled it.
30 GB of hard drive
Ubuntu 11.10
728 MB of video memory
Home folder not encrypted
Here is what i have done:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
Reboot
Boot into GNOME
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
And still the same!
Screenshot of desktop. Also, a printscreen of GNOME Tweak Tool:
Best Answer
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.