Have lost General in Gnome Tweaks

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About a month or two ago I lost the General in Tweaks, the first menu item. I use the Do Not Suspend when lid is closed option regularly but now it has disappeared. I believe that menu also offers over-amplification which I still have for some reason (thankfully). I installed a couple of extensions, one to regular battery power protocols and the other to input a suspend after X time period. I think that is when the General item disappeared. But then I have since removed both extensions but the General did not return. I really miss the do not suspend when lid is closed option since I use it to help fall asleep listening to music without screen display. I haven’t the slightest idea how to troubleshoot this issue, not being a very adroit user.

Thank you.

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Please read this… :point_down:

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Thank you. I removed all the extensions that are no longer compatible. No change. Then I disabled all extensions and rebooted. No change. Then I updated in Terminal with extensions disabled. No change: no General in Tweaks.

PS Am not able to remove Material Shell (which I never used but was there disabled), either from within the Extensions Menu or on the website interface. There is no option to Remove it.

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The General entry was removed upstream with 45.0:

That’s completely unrelated to the subject of this topic. Please create another GNOME topic if you still need help.

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I also do not have the general as a first menu item, as I read this I checked tweaks.
Booted an old vm that was not updated for a while and there is a general item in tweaks.
VM has manjaro gnome stable running, last update 18-10-2023 & gnome 44.5
You probably run gnome 45 now? With gnome-tweaks 45.

The options in the menu item are suspend & over amplification of sound, these options are probably not needed anymore in tweaks or where not working correctly and removed.

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Yes, I’m using 45 now. But the do not suspend when lid is closed option was working great and I miss it!

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With respect, you told me to remove all the extensions not working etc. This one I could not remove.

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@yokanan: I now understand that the missing General is in accord with the intention of gnome 45 so will stop trying to get it back. Thank you!

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No, I didn’t. :wink:

Oh, by the way you can control that in /etc/systemd/login.conf or create your own conf file in /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/. Mine for example since I keep my laptop lid closed since I have three external monitors and always am connected to power:

❯ cat /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/custom.conf
[Login]
HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore

See Power management - ArchWiki for more info

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