gnome-tweak-tool unable to activate extension

[wuster]

I can see the extension listed "Shell Extensions" in gnome-tweak-tool. I can even click on the little "ON" button to the right. But the extension does not appear.

If close and re-open gnome-tweak tool it shows the Weather Indicator Extension still deactivated (even though switched it to "ON" moments ago). Reloading gnome-shell makes no difference.

I'm not sure if this is related, but I did some investigating with dconf-editor and I noticed there was no branch org > gnome > shell > extensions > weather

I'm running gnome 3.2 with the gnome-shell-extension-weather compiled from the Master branch, which I download from github tonight.

[simon04]

How did you install the extension? Did you run (sudo) make install?

[wuster]

I used "sudo checkinstall -D" for the last step. That way I would have a package that would be easy to remove.

[wuster]

I compiled it again, and got a working .deb package. :) What I did differently this time was install the libglib2.0-dev and dconf packages. Also, I needed to manually create the "/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions" directory or checkinstall would fail.

Finally, checkinstall was also failing because of the following error:
" trying to overwrite '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled', which is also in package shotwell 0.11.2-0ubuntu1"

...so I uninstalled the shotwell package (which I was not using anyway). But wish I knew the reason for the conflict.

This is a great extension. It's surprising how handy having weather info available on the top panel is.

[Yasen]

I wondered for a while why the extension did not show up. Then found this issue, installed gnome-tweak-tool and enabled the extension from it. Thanks a lot for this app. I've missed the whether indicator a lot since Gnome 2.