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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: F24 and general problems (fonts, GNOME extensions...)
From:       Alex <mysqlstudent () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-10-25 22:53:50
Message-ID: CAB1R3siVoCq0Dea0cVWKuNKPQQRWwGD2CYhyC85jCR=RHz9EDA () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi,

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Stephen Morris
<samorris@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> On 25/10/16 16:27, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>
>> On 10/24/2016 06:12 PM, Alex wrote:
>>>
>>> Another issue relates to gnome-tweak-tool and GNOME extensions.
>>>
>>> When the system is idle for a few minutes, the screensaver is enabled
>>> and a password is required to unlock it. I used gnome-tweak-tool in
>>> the past to disable this, but it's been enabled again.
>>>
>> Gnome settings -> Privacy
>>
>>> Many of the extensions are disabled, and visiting extensions.gnome.org
>>> with Chrome says "We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this
>>> system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled," preventing me
>>> from installing any extensions or enabling the ones that are currently
>>> disabled.
>>>
>> Were you ever able to use Chrome for this?  There is a Firefox extension
>> included with Gnome Shell that enables this.  And you can use
>> gnome-tweak-tool to enable the extensions that are already installed.
>
> I  get the same issue as this when using Firefox to access the site, but I
> can't determine whether or not the extension fixes the issue because even
> though I have the extension in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and a link to that
> extension in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (which is where the upstream 64 bit
> Firefox requires it) Firefox is refusing to use the plugin at the moment, as
> it is with a number of other plugins (the only ones its using at the moment
> is the Adobe Flash plugin, which is linked to from both directories, and a
> plugin that is in my home location and is linked to from both directories.
>
> Sam, when Gnome-tweak-tool refuses to enable an extension (only offers a
> remove button) and displays a grey triangle with an exclamation point in it,
> with a mouse over that says 'Extension Load Error', how does one determine
> why the extension won't load. The extension is Coverflow Alt-Tab, and
> implements an Alt-tab methodology that I would like to use (The methodology
> that I think this extension implements looks to be similar to the Alt-tab
> methodology offered by Compiz).

Thanks very much for the suggestions. I went through the options in
Chrome and still didn't see anything directly related. Pop-ups were
already enabled.

I didn't even think to use Firefox for some reason. Turns out it
worked just fine, however.
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