Your message dated Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:35:17 +0200
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and subject line Closing the bug report
has caused the Debian Bug report #962797,
regarding gnome-shell-extension-prefs not installed by default, so gear icon
inactive
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Package: gnome-shell-extension-prefs
Version: 3.36.3-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I have standard Debian installation -- installed from scratch stable
distribution, upgraded to testing.
I was unable to go into preferences of any extension.
So I run from terminal gnome-tweaks to see errors.
Error was:
execute_subprocess -- gnome-shell-extensions-prefs
Then I did:
apt-cache search gnome extension prefs
and found gnome-shell-extensions-prefs.
Installed that and gear icons work like a charm.
I think novice Debian user will have problem working around this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnome-shell-extension-prefs depends on:
ii gnome-shell 3.36.3-1
ii gnome-shell-common 3.36.3-1
Versions of packages gnome-shell-extension-prefs recommends:
ii chrome-gnome-shell 10.1-5
gnome-shell-extension-prefs suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello,
gnome-shell-extension-prefs is only a virtual package now, so I think it
is safe to close this bug report.
If you have any more problems, please open a new report.
Thanks,
Dawid Kulas
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