After upgrade to Gnome 49.2 and login files and menus and setting not working

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@mfaridi

 Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 730] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
    v: 470.256.02 arch: Kepler-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz
    2: 1920x1080~60Hz

I would say it happens because of the removal of X11 since v49 See:

@discobot

GNOME 49 is here and wayland is the default

With GNOME 49 there is no X11 session anymore. X11 support got disabled. It will get removed with GNOME 50 anyway. You still can use X11 applications via XWayland as usual, however running GNOME under X11 is not possible anymore.

Nvidia 470xx doesn’t work with wayland, therefore it works only in Xwayland. I would guess that it is the lack of GBM support (GPU acceleration), which is a prerequisite for new GTK4 applications such as Nautilus or Gnome Settings, so a “Renderer-Collapse”.

Try to run it like this for testing purpose:

nautilus -q && GDK_RENDERER=software GSK_RENDERER=gl nautilus

In any case, it’s not a good idea to continue using Gnome with this old Nvidia GPU and the 470xx driver. Switch to XFCE, for example, which still has X11 support.