Desktop icons disappear (and extension disabled) after launching an application

[corrado venturini]

Desktop icons appear after boot but disappear after launching an application.
In the window 'Extensions' near 'Desktop Icons NG (DING) i see a small red circle with a cross and corresponding toggle button is grayed (see attachment)

corrado@corrado-n3-jj-0103:~$ apt policy gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng:
  Installed: 34-1
  Candidate: 34-1
  Version table:
 *** 34-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
corrado@corrado-n3-jj-0103:~$
corrado@corrado-n3-jj-0103:~$ inxi -SCG
System:
  Host: corrado-n3-jj-0103 Kernel: 5.13.0-19-generic x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: GNOME 40.5 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-1035G1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 824 min/max: 400/1000 cores: 1: 954 2: 1000 3: 614
    4: 679 5: 848 6: 754 7: 1001 8: 748
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G1 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: wayland server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 driver: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ICL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2
corrado@corrado-n3-jj-0103:~$

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Also right-click on desktop the item 'desktop icons setting' does not appear.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Sorry, I had the problem twice with 2 reboot but now (3rd reboot) I'm unable to reproduce.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report! I still think there is a problem.

Admittedly I'm not able to reproduce the behavior you describe. And my attempt to open "Extensions" segfaults:

$ gnome-extensions-app
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
Aborted (core dumped)

(which is probably another bug)

But this series of commands indicates a problem:

$ gnome-extensions disable <email address hidden>
$ gnome-extensions info <email address hidden> | grep State
  State: ERROR

I uploaded version 34-1 as late as last Friday, but version 35 has already been released upstream. With a local test of version 35 I can't reproduce "my" way to trigger a problem. So I just uploaded 35-1 to Debian, and it will hopefully make it to Ubuntu tomorrow.

Please test version 35-1 when it lands and let us know if all is fine.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

In the above changes I am assuming without evidence that this is https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/issues/198

I assume that because someone already linked to it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng - 35-1

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gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (35-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1956879)

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Sun, 09 Jan 2022 22:31:55 +0100