fallback and safe modes
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Apr 11 13:30:20 UTC 2011
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 06:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Another option I think is needed is a safe mode which basically ignores
> all the installed extensions. The reason is that, these GNOME Shell
> extensions are essentially arbitrary javascript and if I install a bunch
> of extensions and one of them has a bug, GNOME Shell basically gives up
> and you can't login. Similar to Firefox, a safe mode might be handy to have
That is why we don't recommend installing extensions...
more seriously, 'one of them has a bug' is a little to generic to be
useful. What kind of problem did you encounter, and how did the shell
fail to work ?
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