MaterialYou shell theme not being generated

[IOplus]

I have npm, node and sass installed, the dependencies are all good, and I installed the User Themes extension through my distro's repository (Fedora 36). Still, when I try to use the extension I get this notification:

But it's okay, as seen in this comment, I just need to manually change it from the Gnome Tweaks app.

But there is no MaterialYou shell theme installed. I've tried logging out and restarting multiple times.

[ardjuh]

Is there something in ~/.local/themes/? That's where the generated shell theme should be stored.

[IOplus]

Is there something in ~/.local/themes/? That's where the generated shell theme should be stored.

That directory didn't even exist in my computer, just tried creating it and reactivating the extension, but I sill have the same notification and the directory is empty...

I do have a different directory structure, cause I dual boot two distros, so I divide my home partition a little bit differently. My home directory is located on /home/Fedora/issa20omais instead of /home/issa20omais. Could that be the problem?

[IOplus]

Is there something in ~/.local/themes/?

That's where the generated shell theme should be stored.

Okay, I've made some advancements. I created the directory ~/.local/share/themes and then tried to use the extension, and it created a folder 'MaterialYou' in that directory. But the folder is practically empty, there's only a 'gnome-shell' folder in it, which is empty.

[i-am-wololo]

I have the exact same issue, and I did the exact same thing, and the extension crashed.

The settings of extension [email protected] had an error:
TypeError: ext_utils.check_npm is not a function

Stack trace:
fillPreferencesWindow@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/prefs.js:206:20
_init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:27:29
ExtensionPrefsDialog@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:10:4
OpenExtensionPrefsAsync/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:129:33
asyncCallback@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:115:22
run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:186:20
main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:22:13
run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17

[IOplus]

I found this running journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell -f -o cat:

JS ERROR: ReferenceError: loop is not defined
compile_sass/<@/home/Fedora/issa20omais/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:345:17

Gio.IOErrorEnum: Error creating directory /home/Fedora/issa20omais/.config/gtk-4.0: File exists
Gio.IOErrorEnum: Error creating directory /home/Fedora/issa20omais/.config/gtk-3.0: File exists
Gio.IOErrorEnum: Error creating directory /home/Fedora/issa20omais/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou: File exists
Gio.IOErrorEnum: Error creating directory /home/Fedora/issa20omais/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou/gnome-shell: File exists
JS ERROR: ReferenceError: loop is not defined
compile_sass/<@/home/Fedora/issa20omais/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:345:17

Gio.IOErrorEnum: Error creating directory /home/Fedora/issa20omais/.config/gtk-4.0: File exists
Gio.IOErrorEnum: Error creating directory /home/Fedora/issa20omais/.config/gtk-3.0: File exists

[ardjuh]

Maybe it works if we empty the folders if they exist, but I'm very busy at the moment, so if someone has some free time, it shouldn't be very difficult.

[ardjuh]

The loop is not defined error is already fixed

[IOplus]

Maybe it works if we empty the folders if they exist, but I'm very busy at the moment, so if someone has some free time, it shouldn't be very difficult.

I've already tried emptying/deleting the folders, but I get pretty much the same error, except for the last line:

JS ERROR: ReferenceError: loop is not defined
compile_sass/<@/home/Fedora/issa20omais/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:345:17

Gio.IOErrorEnum: Error creating directory /home/Fedora/issa20omais/.config/gtk-4.0: File exists
JS ERROR: GLib.FileError: Failed to open file “/home/Fedora/issa20omais/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks”: No such file or directory

[ardjuh]

Did you empty them by hand or with code? If you did it by code, can you link the code then.

[IOplus]

Did you empty them by hand or with code? If you did it by code, can you link the code then.

I just ran: mv ~/.config/gtk-4.0 ~/.config/gtk-4.0.old && mv ~/.config/gtk-3.0 ~/.config/gtk-3.0.old && rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou And then I made sure the folders didn't exist by trying to cd into them

[IOplus]

Okay, things just started working, I don't know what happened but the shell theme is fine now.

[everyx]

@IOplus I have the same problem, can you share your version and installation method? I install this by clone the git repo, and run make && make install, gnome shell version is 43.0, I have a empty ~/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou directory, and log error JS ERROR: ReferenceError: loop is not defined, and I try mv ~/.config/gtk-4.0 ~/.config/gtk-4.0.old && mv ~/.config/gtk-3.0 ~/.config/gtk-3.0.old && rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou, it's not work.

[i-am-wololo]

I install it with the AUR package

Le mar. 1 nov. 2022, 16:11, Gavin Luo @.***> a écrit :

@IOplus https://github.com/IOplus I have the same problem, can you share your version and installation method? I install this by clone the git repo, and run make && make install, gnome shell version is 43.0, I have a empty ~/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou directory, and log error JS ERROR: ReferenceError: loop is not defined, and I try mv ~/.config/gtk-4.0 ~/.config/gtk-4.0.old && mv ~/.config/gtk-3.0 ~/.config/gtk-3.0.old && rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou, it's not work.

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[ardjuh]

I just fixed the loop bug. I don't know why these files cause problems (I don't think this bug fix is going to fix it). Can you try removing the files completely and then enabling this extension?

[everyx]

I just fixed the loop bug. I don't know why these files cause problems (I don't think this bug fix is going to fix it). Can you try removing the files completely and then enabling this extension?

After reinstall from Gnome extension website, It's get work(shell theme css generate successfully), but there are still some error messages in the log

Gio.IOErrorEnum: 创建目录 /home/everyx/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou 时出错：文件已存在
Gio.IOErrorEnum: 创建目录 /home/everyx/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou/gnome-shell 时出错：文件已存在
Gio.IOErrorEnum: 创建目录 /home/everyx/.config/gtk-4.0 时出错：文件已存在
Gio.IOErrorEnum: 创建目录 /home/everyx/.config/gtk-3.0 时出错：文件已存在
loading user theme: /home/everyx/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css
loading user theme: /home/everyx/.local/share/themes/MaterialYou/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css
JS ERROR: ReferenceError: loop is not defined
compile_sass/<@/home/everyx/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:345:17