Ubuntu – Gnome-shell settings not saved

18.04gnomegnome-shellgnome-shell-extension

Using Ubuntu 18.04 and GNOME Shell 3.28.1.

Every time I start my computer, I have to

  • enable a certain non-system extension I'd like to use, and
  • I have to disable Night Light.

Some system extensions have always been reactivated after a reboot, despite the fact I disabled them. I had to remove them from /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions.

Night Light is always set up with some really strange schedulde. If I correct it, it will be resetted after an undefined amount of time.

I'm guessing some configuration file is broken or has the wrong access rights. But I can't figure out which one.

Best Answer

I got it working by removing some settings folders and just configuring everything from scratch. I found some valuable information in this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/558450/548635

What I finally did is:

mv ~/.config/dconf ~/.config/dconf.old
mv ~/.gnome ~/.gnome.old
mv ~/.gconf ~/.gconf.old
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