TEMPORARY FIX + appeal to sgaraud

[mariansam]

Why doesn't this work?

As I see this extension isn't working for a lot of people including me. It caused me a lot of trouble when I updated to Fedora 28, because it made the whole GNOME to crash. Now (after a year and a half, I know) I have found the problem and solved it! The problem is that the version at the GNOME extensions site is not the latest. The version here at GitHub includes a bugfix (a2857ae) by @lkundrak, which isn't featured at the GNOME extensions site.

How do I fix it?

This is a really noob way of fixing the issue, but it works. Better way is to follow the build from source guide in the readme, but it's not necessary, this way works.

1) Install the extension

Go to https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/941/show-ip and install the extension. You should see ERROR.

2) Apply the latest version

Replace the extension.js file installed locally on your computer by the one from GitHub. Here are the commands, it should be as easy as copying them to the terminal line by line.

cd $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/show-ip@sgaraud.github.com/
curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgaraud/gnome-extension-show-ip/master/extension.js' -o extension.js

3) Restart GNOME Shell

Press Alt+F2, r, Enter to restart GNOME Shell. Your IP should appear at the top bar in a second.

If this didn't work for you, write it bellow. I'll be more than happy to help you.

Appeal to @sgaraud

Please update the extension at GNOME extensions so people won't have this problem again. If you don't have time to maintain this project you can migrate it to me (don't migrate it to me, I stopped using GNOME) or someone else (but I don't know how nor if it's even possible).

[poblabs]

Worked great for me. Thanks!