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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

You're currently running gnome on wayland and xrandr is more or less useless in that context.
You can either explicitly select gnome on X11 or return to lightdm, since apparently the DM as no impact.

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doofy_doofus

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

Yep. Xrandr back to normal with "Gnome on Xorg". Settings still not cooperating though.

doofy_doofus

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

The weird thing is that even gnome-tweaks is not able to set a wallpaper.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

Does it crash as well? Or produce some error?

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doofy_doofus

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

Nope, no crashes.

running gnome-tweaks with the debug option shows this line however:

DEBUG   : No translated schema for org.gnome.desktop.background (domain: gsettings-desktop-schemas)

Is this of any significance?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

Shows up frequently - if it doesn't crash, how exactly does it fail "to set a wallpaper"?
What's the output of

dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/background/

Can you

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-uri "'file:///path/to/wallpaper.jpg'" # nb the nested quotes

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doofy_doofus

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

dump returns:

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picture-options='scaled'
picture-uri='file:///home/mitch/Pictures/Wallpapers/1.jpg'

write returns no output but the write was successful.
This is frankly very weird. Everything works except the Wallpaper xD

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

Writing the picture didn't change the wallpaper?

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-uri-dark "'file:///path/to/wallpaper.jpg'" # obviously use a proper path
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-uri-light "'file:///path/to/wallpaper.jpg'"

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doofy_doofus

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

This seemed to have worked, surprisingly!
Thanks a lot for the patience, Seth!

$ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-uri-light "'file:///home/mitch/Pictures/Wallpapers/test.png'"
$ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-options 1

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

So the most interesting question: does the GUI now behave?

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doofy_doofus

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

Nope, that's still crashing.

https://imgur.com/a/NjRYAOA

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

You're no longer alone…
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=290011

Edit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-co … ssues/2087

Last edited by seth (2023-11-02 21:35:16)

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NightPatrolman

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

Yeah, I'm somebody who was supposedly having a similar problem. I followed that gitlab link and realized the issue stemmed from having an AUR package of Ubuntu wallpapers. Once I removed them, the Appearance menu stopped crashing on me. If you have any Ubuntu packages installed this way, try removing them and see if it helps.

doofy_doofus

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Settings crashing after opening

IT WORKED.

I can not believe that the solution was so trivial, it's almost criminal :')

Thanks a lot for the patience, Seth.
And thank you NightPatrolman, for bringing the thread to light. I ALMOST gave up because this thing had me at my wit's end making me go through stack traces and syscall logs as a beginner.

Marking this as solved.