Adapt RequiredComponents to GNOME 3.24

[foonathan]

The name of the gnome-settings-daemon changed.

[coderkun]

It works for me again with this change.

[jeanfrancisroy]

Same here, working again with this change.

[jthomaschewski]

Yes it's working - but unfortunately I'm unable to open "gnome-tweak-tool" since the upgrade:

❯ gnome-tweak-tool 
WARNING : Shell not installed or running

Does anyone else have the same issue with this or other gnome applications?

[foonathan]

I have the same issue as well.

[coderkun]

@jbbr, the gnome-tweak-tool can only be used with the Gnome Shell. There is no point in using this application with i3 or any other window manager.

[foonathan]

There is, it can be used to set the theme for GTK applications etc.

[coderkun]

@foonathan, true, but it apparently requires the Gnome Shell—probably to handle the extensions. If Gnome is installed, run this application under the Gnome Shell. I don’t see how this issue relates to the i3-gnome session.

[foonathan]

You could previously use the tweak tool when running i3, now you can't. I've also noticed that it doesn't apply the changes anymore, i.e. change settings in Gnome, not changed under i3, but could have been my fault.

[coderkun]

Then report this to the gnome-tweak-tool: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-tweak-tool

[jthomaschewski]

@coderkun I'm just mentioning this as the tweak tool previously worked fine when running the old gnome-settings-daemon in i3 - with and without i3-gnome. It's quite helpful as it provides access to hidden settings like "dark mode", HiDPI settings, font etc.

Also the verbose log when starting the tool says that this might also be caused by problems with dbus:

Exception: Shell not running or DBus service not available

In the past I sometimes had issue with dbus when using i3+gnome-settings-daemon. So that's why I thought some service might be missing. That why I'm interested if anyone has similar issues with other gnome applications which are not as tightly coupled to gnome internals as the tweak tool is.

A report to gnome-tweak-tool is a good idea though. In the meantime switching to gnome to use the tool seems reasonable. Manually changing the gconf values is possible as well.

[coderkun]

The dbus service is not running because the Gnome Shell is not running. This can only be fixed by running the Gnome Shell (which you don’t want when running i3).

Of course it is sad that the gnome-tweak-tool does not run without it but I guess the Gnome team does not care much about other window managers than their own one. All (or most?) settings should be changable via the dconf-editor which runs fine for me under i3 (in the i3-gnome-session).

[jthomaschewski]

Yes its something which could be expected but it used to work - so either dbus was working with old-style gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-tweak-tool was able to connect, or something else has changed.

However I'm glad that apart from the tweak-tool everything runs smooth so far. Thanks