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julienfalque

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Registered: 2016-06-17

Posts: 43

[SOLVED] Gnome restores deleted extensions when updated

Hi,

I have a weird issue with Gnome: everytime it is updated, it restores old extensions I uninstalled. I have to uninstall them again by removing each directory in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions and restart Gnome. The extensions I do want to keep are in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions.

How is Gnome able to restore the uninstalled extensions? How can I prevent this?

Last edited by julienfalque (2019-08-21 20:39:41)

eda2z

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From: Woodstock, IL

Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 66

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome restores deleted extensions when updated

Do you have gnome-shell-extensions installed from the Arch repo?  If so, then you should probably remove that package. I only install extensions from the gnome-shell extension website. The ones from the website go into .local/share whereas the package extensions go into /usr/share.

julienfalque

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Registered: 2016-06-17

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome restores deleted extensions when updated

Uninstalling gnome-shell-extensions fixed the issue, thanks!