Since latest update (Gnome 40) the "dash to dock" shows no more window previews

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After running the latest Manjaro update (on July 13) the dash to dock extension for Gnome stopped working.
I reinstalled the extension, which helped but there are still some issues.

I couldn’t open the settings (I can now after running this fix Dash to dock fails and default desktop view changed after the update - #19 by kuznero)

But I the window previews (when multiple windows of an application are open) are still not working.

I tried:

  • disabling/enabling the extension
  • changed the setting to the other options like cycling (which all seem to work)
  • rebooting after changing settings
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Take look in the last Stable-Update-Thread:

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Try to delete “schemas” folder at /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micgx.gmail.com

It worked for me

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I did that, but it only fixed the error when opening the settings

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Have you looked at Layout?

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Please test gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock 69+14+g302c693-4, I think I may have found the issue.

EDIT: I’m referring to the settings dialog.

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I disabled the extension, removed the old one, rebooted, installed the one you mentioned (with Add/Remove software), and rebooted again and enabled Dash-to-Dock via “Extensions”.

The windows preview is still not working on the setting “Show windows preview”, however there are previews when I set it to “Focus or show previews”.

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I meant I think I may have fixed the issue with the settings dialog being broken. Is that working?

I never said I fixed the upstream issues. :wink:

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Heres what I did:
I removed the schemas directory, and then followed these steps:

then I changed the theme in tweaks to “default” and voila, I works perfectly again.

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What I suggested on the Spanish thread was, as per below:

  1. Trying to set up the missing property with the gsettings command
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock preview-size-scale 0.0
  1. Check out the schema XML file for the missing properties. If missing, then add them manually:

File path:
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock.gschema.xml

Code:

<key type="d" name="preview-size-scale">
      <default>0</default>
      <summary>Preview size scale</summary>
      <description>Set the allowed maximum dash preview size scale. Allowed range: 0,00..1,00.</description>
    </key>

And finally, if the above didn’t help to fix the issue, forcing a reinstall of the extension via pamac.

I’m wondering what step actually fixed the issue for @martinator though. I bet it is the extension reinstall via pamac? :sweat_smile:

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None of that should be necessary. The only reason why the settings dialog produced that error is because the gschemas.compiled wasn’t being compiled to match the version. I can’t reproduce it, so I’m shooting blind here. I did find an inconsistency with the packaging that should have fixed it.

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The settings dialog is working with that version :slight_smile:
(but it also worked after I applied the fix with the schemas directory that I mentioned in the initial post :wink: )

But thank you for your work and effort on this :slight_smile:

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Is there an error log or verbose mode to figure out why the previews are not showing?
Happy to assist if finding the problem or debugging, if there is anything I can do.

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there is problem with my dash to doc after I upgraded. here is the error that it produces:

GLib.FileError: Failed to open file “/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com/schemas/gschemas.compiled”: open() failed: No such file or directory

Stack trace:
  getSettings@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/misc/extensionUtils.js:141:31
  _init@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com/prefs.js:188:45
  buildPrefsWidget@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com/prefs.js:1013:20
  _init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:209:40
  OpenExtensionPrefsAsync/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:122:28
  asyncCallback@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:115:22
  run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:177:20
  main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:19:13
  run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
  start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
  @/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17
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Restart GMOME Shell or logout / login.

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thanks, restarting Gnome helped

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Thanks a lot!

Try to delete “schemas” folder at /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micgx.gmail.com

with
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock preview-size-scale 0.0
and Logoff/Logon helped to solve the issue.

However to get back ‘show previews’ on windows, I had to change ‘Click action’ under ‘Behavior’ tab to ‘Focus, minimize or show previews’ in Dash to Dock settings. In previous Gnome it worked with ‘Minimize or show previews’ option.

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