F24 and general problems (fonts, GNOME extensions...)

[Alex]

Hi,

I've just upgraded from fedora23 to fedora24 on my desktop, and the
fonts have changed. They now appear to be much smaller by default, and
perhaps not as well-defined (anti-aliased?).

I don't even know where to start to troubleshoot this issue. I've been
using Linux for decades, but haven't followed GNOME and font
development.

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.

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.

When viewing the Appearance section, "Shell theme" is disabled with an
exclamation point next to it.

What can I do to enable extensions in Chrome again?

Thanks,
Alex

[Samuel Sieb]

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.

>  When viewing the Appearance section, "Shell theme" is
> disabled with an
>  exclamation point next to it.
>  
In gnome-tweak-tool, enable (install first if necessary) the User Themes 
extension.  You may need to restart the tweak tool after enabling the 
extension.

>  What can I do to enable extensions in Chrome again?
>  
This isn't really Fedora related, unless you actually mean something 
other than Google Chrome.

[Stephen Morris]

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).

regards,
Steve

> > When viewing the Appearance section, "Shell theme" is
> disabled with an
> > exclamation point next to it.
> >
>  In gnome-tweak-tool, enable (install first if necessary) the User 
>  Themes extension.  You may need to restart the tweak tool after 
>  enabling the extension.
>
> > What can I do to enable extensions in Chrome again?
> >
>  This isn't really Fedora related, unless you actually mean something 
>  other than Google Chrome.
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[Alex]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Stephen Morris
<samorris(a)netspace.net.au&gt; 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.