this also doubles as a please help me out on this post, the dock doesn’t work

  • wolf@lemmy.zipEnglish
    231·
    5 days ago

    Sorry, but this post is really, really bad.

    State clearly which distro and which versions of Gnome and dash-to-dock and perhaps what other extensions you are running, and there might be a chance someone is able to help you. (Also state clearly the source of your Gnome extensions).

    Most of the hints/solutions in answer to this post are also not good. If dash-to-dock triggered the malfunction of the gnome-shell on your system, just login to a terminal and use dconf or gsettings to set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions to an empty array or to an array w/o dash-to-dock.

    I am happily running dash-dock@micxgx.gmail.com on multiple physical and virtual machines w/o any trouble, using the dash-to-dock provided by my package manager on different CPU architectures YMMV.

  • OatPotato [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
    7·
    5 days ago

    If you still need help:

    1. Open a TTY (Cttl+Alt+F3 for example, works from F1 to F6 but depending on Wayland or Xorg F1, F2 and/or F6 may be used so F3 should be good, otherwise try another one).
    2. The TTY will ask for your username and password, so login with your normal user (not root).
    3. You shoud get to an interactive shell, so you can go to the Gnome extensions directory (cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/).
    4. You can now remove the problematic extension (rm -r …).
    5. Now either you reboot your computer (the reboot command will be enough to restart the computer), this will ensure you don’t keep a remaining session and you’ll boot in your login manager (GDM I guess).

    Hope it helps!

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    83·
    5 days ago

    Oh no, my desktop is fried!

    1. Create a new user.
    2. Login as new user.
    3. Copy your old files over.
    5. Profit.
    • mvirts@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 days ago

      Alternatively, if you can create a new user, you can instead clear your home folder. Usually just requires renaming ~/.config but some systems put config in other places.

  • Omega@discuss.online
    5·
    5 days ago

    can you open a terminal or is it just that the dock is gone? Search “Extension” in search and disable every extension.

    Also, tell us what is off from an ordinary install (for example, you can’t open apps or something)

    • Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      The gnome menu doesn’t work, literally just shows nothing, I have arcmenu (the knife looking thing) which I enabled through terminal with the command “gnome-extensions enable arcmenu@arcmenu.com” there’s also commands to disable dash-to-dock but disabling it just fucks it even more, I uninstalled it then I had to reinstall it to fuck it up less than it did. I’m going to install another thing, tbh I just needed an excuse to not be using Ubuntu anymore.

      • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        I’ve had no issues with Dash to Dock, this looks more like an ArcMenu issue to me based on your screenshot.

        In the description for ArcMenu they say:

        Requires GMenu package:

        • Depending on your distro you may need to install ‘gir1.2-gmenu-3.0’, ‘gnome-menus’, or ‘libgnome-menu-3-0’

        Have you got that dependency covered?

        What other extensions do you have installed? What versions of Ubuntu and GNOME are you using?

      • Omega@discuss.online
        21·
        5 days ago

        oh man idk where to begin tbh

        Maybe deleting the dotfiles (holds configuration data) would help return the DE to a default state?

        I probably would just reinstall, though. I’m not confident enough to mess around with dotfiles