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The 'Files' window doesn't show in the taskbar. Any other application will show when started but files does not. I'm running dash to panel on Ubuntu 21.10. Is there a setting I'm missing?

~$ wmctrl -m
Name: GNOME Shell
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: OFF
~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
ubuntu-xorg ubuntu:GNOME

Files window not showing in taskbar Dash to panel settings

Martin
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Works for me (21.10). My setup :

sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimal

sudo apt reinstall gdm3 gnome-shell gnome-session

also installed

dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | grep gnome
ii  chrome-gnome-shell

My current environment (from here)

  • Window manager: wmctrl -m
  • Session: echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
  • Desktop environment: echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

For me it is i.e. GNOME-Shell, ubuntu-xorg and ubuntu-GNOME gnome-shell --version 40.5

All extensions installed from:

gnome extensions website

Here my installed extensions.

~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions$ sudo ls -l
  drwxrwxr-x 3 user user 4096 Dez  1 18:30 apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com
  drwxrwxr-x 4 user user 4096 Dez  1 18:32 clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com
  drwxrwxr-x 5 user user 4096 Dez  3 11:18 dash-to-panel@jderose9.github.com
  drwxrwxr-x 3 user user 4096 Dez  1 18:50 panel-date-format@keiii.github.com
  drwxrwxr-x 7 user user 4096 Apr 21  2021 stocks@infinicode.de
  drwxrwxr-x 3 user user 4096 Dez  1 18:30 user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com

Panel Filemanager Window

lemrm
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  • yes, followed all the steps, still nothing. Did complete re-install of Ubuntu 20.10 and dash-to-panel. Still no files window. – Martin Dec 14 '21 at 18:38
  • Sometimes wayland act not in the normal way. Can you test this in another envionment (Xorg, show printf 'Desktop: %s\nSession: %s\n' "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" "$GDMSESSION" ). – lemrm Dec 14 '21 at 18:52
  • It prints Desktop: ubuntu:GNOME Session: ubuntu – Martin Dec 14 '21 at 19:03
  • maybe try to switch like described here – lemrm Dec 14 '21 at 19:25
  • the difference to my installation seems to be, you are in an ubuntu-session and I'm in a xorg-ubuntu and my windomanager is a gdm3 gome-session combination yours, I guess, wayland or lightdm and ubuntu. My advise: you can have many display/windowmanager parallel. Install gnome-shell and replace ubuntu with gnome-shell. – lemrm Dec 15 '21 at 08:53
  • Have you read Howto enable Dash to Panel on github? There is described
    1. Reload GNOME Shell.


    - Xorg (Default for Ubuntu): Alt-F2 and in the dialogue that pops up, enter the command r

    • Wayland (Default for Fedora & Debian): Logout and back in means: gnome-shell seems to be a prerequisite for this extension
     – lemrm Dec 15 '21 at 09:11
  • Still no luck, gnome-shell didn't change anything, reloading it neither. If I disable Dash To Panel, open a Files window and enable it again, then it show up on the taskbar. Though if I close it, it remains running. Added some info to original post. – Martin Dec 16 '21 at 13:35
  • can you show this again Window manager: wmctrl -m Session: echo $DESKTOP_SESSION Desktop environment: echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP – lemrm Dec 16 '21 at 14:27
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    I'v put the info in the original question. I also came across this https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel/issues/1265#issuecomment-947340263 guess I'm not the only one. – Martin Dec 16 '21 at 14:42
  • what is your gnome-shell --version and have you tried this workaround – lemrm Dec 16 '21 at 16:05
  • mine ist 40.5 and the extension has version 44 – lemrm Dec 16 '21 at 17:06