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I'm trying to debug a gnome-shell extension, but I don't seem the have the folder /usr/share/gnome-shell/js. I'm on fedora 20 with gnome 3.12. I couldn't find it when I had gnome 3.10 either. Were the files moved? Is there a package that I'm missing?
topcat
Posted 2014-04-05T21:11:23.947
Reputation: 205
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The js files are now embedded inside libgnome-shell.so.
gresource list /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.so
You can create a simple script to extract the resources:
#! /bin/sh
gs=/usr/lib/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.so
cd $HOME/gnome-shell-js
mkdir -p ui/components ui/status misc perf extensionPrefs gdm
for r in `gresource list $gs`; do
gresource extract $gs $r > ${r/#\/org\/gnome\/shell/.}
done
And then use:
GNOME_SHELL_JS=$HOME/gnome-shell-js gnome-shell --replace
To check the changes.
Be careful, when you exit the replacement shell, the previous one becomes unresponsive.
This was taken from Gnome blog post.
jtheoof
Posted 2014-04-05T21:11:23.947
Reputation: 288
On a 64-bit system, my path to gnome-shell was /usr/lib64/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.so
Also, I needed to add portalHelper to the list of directories to add via mkdir. – Haydentech – 2018-07-17T20:29:56.980