I’ve just upgraded to Fedora Workstation 42 and am now unable to activate any GNOME extensions. The little switches in the GUI do not respond and it’s the same for all extensions. The Extensions and Extensions Manager apps are both installed as flatpaks - do I need to adjust their permissions in Flatseal? Is the problem due to something else? Thanks!

Edit/solution: I totally missed the ‘Use Extensions’ switch at the very top. All my extensions are working on the current GNOME version (48) now. I am the most silly. Hopefully the other solutions in the comments will be useful to someone else in future :)

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    10·
    11 hours ago

    Gnome makes absolutely no promises of version compatibility for extensions.

    You’re stuck waiting for an extension dev to update to support the new gnome version.

  • Ditti@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    1 hour ago

    As others have pointed out, the extensions are likely not (officially) compatible with the new version of GNOME yet. Which extensions are you having trouble with?

    There are a couple of extensions that are available for installation through dnf for which Fedora takes care of making them compatible at the same time at which they make available a new version of GNOME. Caffeine and Dash To Panel are two examples. For a full-ish list, try dnf search gnome-shell-extension.

    Alternatively you can also try manually editing the extension’s metadata to “make it compatible”. Your mileage may vary with this approach, but it worked fine for Net Speed Simplified, for example.

  • qweertz (they/she)@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    10 hours ago

    This is why – if you want to keep your extensions – you wait with upgrading to a new Gnome version until your extensions support it…

    AFAIK there is no stable extension API, leading to breakage with every version upgrade

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 hours ago

      This is really annoying.

      I’m trying to use as little extensions as possible so I only use 4. 2 out of them haven’t upgraded to 48 yet and aren’t usable for now.

      This is especially annoying because I’m trying to respect Gnomés philosophy with my extensions…

  • Kiuyn@lemmy.ml
    6·
    12 hours ago

    New gnome version may cause issue to extensions that do not support it. If that is the issues then there isn’t much you can do.