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#1 2015-10-09 19:41:11
- olive
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[Solved] How the Gnome website does know that I am not running Gnome?
I visited this website:
and I see a "warning" saying: "We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled. See our troubleshooting entry for more information."
My system is XFCE with the latest chromium. How the hell could they know that I am not running gnome? It does not AFAIK appear i my user agent, which is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.101 Safari/537.36
Last edited by olive (2015-10-13 15:55:41)
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#2 2015-10-09 19:44:17
- lucke
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Re: [Solved] How the Gnome website does know that I am not running Gnome?
The troubleshooting entry mentions a "GNOME Shell Integration" browser plugin.
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#3 2015-10-09 19:45:43
- Trilby
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Re: [Solved] How the Gnome website does know that I am not running Gnome?
I wouldn't be surprised if it is precisely as you say: it knows you are not running a gnome browser because it does not appear in your user agent string.
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#4 2015-10-09 23:15:24
- mwillems
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Re: [Solved] How the Gnome website does know that I am not running Gnome?
Even if you're running gnome you'll see that same error if you haven't enabled the browser integration (in firefox there's an addon, for example). The website effectively tests for [browser integration && gnome]
The warning means exactly what it says: it can't detect a running instance of gnome (in the absence of a running gnome instance and a browser with integration). That doesn't mean it knows that you aren't running gnome, it just means it can't affirmatively detect a running gnome instance.
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#5 2015-10-13 15:55:29
- olive
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Re: [Solved] How the Gnome website does know that I am not running Gnome?
It is indeed the plugin, I have made some tests.
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#6 2015-12-24 17:34:41
- samstr
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Re: [Solved] How the Gnome website does know that I am not running Gnome?
Even if you're running gnome you'll see that same error if you haven't enabled the browser integration (in firefox there's an addon, for example). The website effectively tests for [browser integration && gnome].
That would appear to be correct, I get the same error even though I am using gnome but without browser integration.
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