so I recently installed Ubuntu Gnome 15.10, and am trying to customize things a bit further, but gnome tweak tool won't launch for some reason. it loads for a few seconds, then just disappears. if I open System Monitor, the tweak tool process shows up there, but I can't access it, and it doesn't show up anywhere else. I tried launching it from the terminal hoping it would spit me out an error, but nothing. anyone have a suggestion?
Open a terminal and enter gnome-tweak-tool there. Maybe it outputs whats wrong with it.
The terminal should be able to dump the issue.. run gnome-tweak-tool
in the terminal..
never had a good experience with gnome on ubuntu but ehh whatever OS floats your boat
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I have tried that, as I said in the OP, and there are no error messages that come up.
Sorry... i should realy have read it through the end.
Are there totally no messegas at all or just no errors? As I get update notifications for extensions and so on...
maybe sudo --purge remove gnome-tweak-tool and than sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool might fix it by reinstaling it clean
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No notifications, or text of any kind if I try launching through terminal. I have also done the purge and reinstall, and it didn't help.
do you get any output with gnome-tweak-tool -vd ?
Have you tried resetting your Desktop Environment? Could be getting moved off screen
here's the output of that.
DEBUG : Schema not translated org.gnome.shell (domain: gnome-shell)
DEBUG : Schema not translated org.gnome.shell (domain: gnome-shell)
DEBUG : Schema not translated org.gnome.shell (domain: gnome-shell)
DEBUG : Schema not translated org.gnome.shell (domain: gnome-shell)
DEBUG : Schema not translated org.gnome.shell (domain: gnome-shell)
DEBUG : Schema not translated org.gnome.shell (domain: gnome-shell)
DEBUG : Schema not translated org.gnome.shell (domain: gnome-shell)
DEBUG : Caching gsettings:
DEBUG : Shell version: [3, 16, 4]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/app.py", line 39, in do_activate
self.win = Window(self, model)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweakview.py", line 49, in init
titlebar = self.titlebar()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweakview.py", line 85, in titlebar
self.updatedecorations (Gtk.Settings.get_default(), None)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweakview.py", line 200, in updatedecorations
self.rightheader.props.decoration_layout = ":" + tokens[1]
IndexError: list index out of range
how would I do that?
Ok, that issue seems to be spread all over the different distributions... on https://ask.fedoraproject.org a user suggested to check in the file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweakview.py
(e.g. gksu gedit /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweakview.py)
and find the line right above
self.rightheader.props.decoration_layout = ":" + tokens[1]
it should be line 199; There it should read:
if tokens != None:
but should be
if not tokens:
instead.
I can't test if it helps, becaus I do not have that issue (on Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 myselve) but I hope it will solve the problem.
Some more digging I found another sollution:
Create a new user and try it with that one.. if solved = be happy;
If not solved something messed up your install; reinstall the OS
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press Alt + F2, type "r" then Enter when your idling on the unity desktop
He uses Ubuntu Gnome, which runs gnome. But it works nonetheless, both for unity and gnome-shell
OH, my mistake.. I always insert unity whenever I hear ubuntu. Good on you for using Ubuntu Gnome, I definitely prefer that over unity. @FuzzyYellow
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awesome! that worked! thanks so much!
I am relay glad I could help.
The wired part is, that this seems like a regression from 2014 which should already have a fix merged. Are your packets all up to date?
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should be, I just installed the distro 2 days ago...
always run a update after installation. Not all packeges get updated during install.. and the DVD is never up to date.
sudo apt-get updted && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
than your up to date
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