python-caja not reading from /usr/share/caja-python/extensions/

[Matthew Jenkins]

No extensions placed in /usr/share/caja-python/extensions are detected or used by caja. This includes default extensions.

Currently on 1.10.0-2

Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

What is meant by "default extensions"? Do you mean sample Python extensions from /usr/share/doc/python-caja/examples/ ?

Also, just in case, check if you have anything in the local Python extensions dir:

ls -al ~/.local/share/caja-python/extensions

[Matthew Jenkins (mjenki03)]

~/.local/share/caja-python/extensions does not exist.

ls -la /usr/share/caja-python/extensions/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 20:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 21 12:50 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5827 Oct 21 10:56 deja.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33813 May 1 2015 folder-color.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3720 May 1 2015 insync-caja-plugin.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 17 17:22 .placeholder

I don't know what deja.py does but there is definitely no color picker and insync does show up.

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

Ah, so insync extension does actually work?

[Matthew Jenkins (mjenki03)]

The insync dev confirmed it works. https://forums.insynchq.com/t/insync-caja-not-working/4707/7

On freenode before filing a report I asked if anyone else used caja and if python extensions were not working. Could it be related to https://github.com/mate-desktop/python-caja/issues/22 ?

[Matthew Jenkins (mjenki03)]

I appear to have confirmed it is the above bug.

I moved the extensions to my desktop. Then did sudo killall caja. Caja reloaded and it was normal. I then copied the insync extension back in and did sudo killall caja again. Caja reloaded but this time the insync extension was working. I then copied deja in and reiterated. Now insync did not work.

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

Yes, by your description it looks like it's that bug. It's actually in Caja itself, not in python-caja. The fix should land in the official MATE repo for 15.10 soon:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mate-dev/+archive/ubuntu/wily-mate

Please note that you'll need to upgrade the whole MATE to 1.12 from that repo. I'm not sure whether 1.10 would be updated as well.