Help, broken Gsettings
- by Rene
I was trying to disable the global menu as per http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/07/disable-global-menu-on-ubuntu-13-10-saucy/#comment-8612, but while it didn't change anything, after running the autoremove command unity-tweak-tool broke. Obviously my first reaction was to re-install the removed package but it remains broken. TBH I don't know if it is even related or just a coincidence.
When I start it from the launcher it just blinks and disappear. When I start it from terminal I get this error:
$ gnome-tweak-tool
WARNING : Shell not installed or running
WARNING : Error detecting shell
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell_extensions.py", line 199, in __init__
raise Exception("Shell not running or DBus service not available")
Exception: Shell not running or DBus service not available
INFO : GSettings missing key org.gnome.nautilus.desktop (key computer-icon-visible)
WARNING : Shell not running
None
INFO : GSettings missing key org.gnome.mutter (key workspaces-only-on-primary)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I had a look with dconf-editor if I could just add the missing key, but apparently keys aren't meant to be added "by hand".
So how can I fix this? I'd rather prefer not having to reinstall everything.
Which package is broken, can I just reinstall that?
EDIT:
I found by being root gnome-tweak-tool no longer crashed so possibly a permission issue somewhere. I don't know that I changed any permissions.
Another related problem, actually the reason I noticed the problem at all, is that unity-tweak-tool seem no longer to want to save the values edited. I normally just have the Unity launcher on the primary display but wanted to check what it was like having it on both. I didn't like it so I went into unity-tweak-tool to set it back - but regardless how many time I tick "only primary display" it never changes anything. What does the Unity-tweak-tool actually change and can I do this directly somehow?
