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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon brunelli

System-wide installation of extensions

Open bittner opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

It seems to be possible to install GNOME Shell extensions system-wide (in /usr/local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/<extension-uuid>/). Would it make sense to add an option to allow installing extensions like this?

bittner avatar Mar 03 '19 14:03 bittner

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bittner avatar Mar 03 '19 16:03 bittner

Running gnome-shell-extension-installer as root should do the trick.

brunelli avatar Mar 03 '19 20:03 brunelli

Running gnome-shell-extension-installer as root should do the trick.

Oh, interesting, it does! You're making the distinction based on the uid, neat! :+1:

bittner avatar Mar 05 '19 07:03 bittner

You're making the distinction based on the uid

Yeap. Should probably add a --user/--system switch to override this behavior, though. I'm gonna reopen this issue so I don't forget to do it.

brunelli avatar Mar 05 '19 11:03 brunelli