Ubuntu – Upgrading Gnome Shell Extensions

12.04gnomegnome-shell-extension

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, and all the gnome shell extensions listed by the Gnome Tweak tool are disabled. What's the easiest way to fix/upgrade them? Do I need to manually delete, re-download and install them?

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Go to extensions.gnome.org with Firefox or Epiphany, then to "Installed extensions". Some may me grayed out, that means that they aren't available in Gnome 3.4, but others probably have a green icon on the left with which you can update the extension.

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Ubuntu – How to install gnome shell extensions offline

You are almost there. After:

copying the folder in the ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
just restart Gnome Shell: Alt+F2 -> R -> Enter

and the extension should appear in the gnome-tweaks tool (restart that one as well).

Ubuntu – Cannot install gnome shell extensions

The reason you are not seeing extensions available is that they are for Gnome Shell 3.6 most likely. This was an issue I had when I was running Gnome Shell 3.2 and they moved to the 3.4 version.

The best suggestion is to update Gnome Shell with the Gnome 3 PPA

In terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

After the upgrade try going to the extension site. You should be all set.

Edit: This will get you to the latest version of Gnome Shell which right now should be 3.6 if I am correct.

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