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Tag: Gnome

  • Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected

    This is a bit of a nuisance, after a fresh install of Ubuntu Gnome, I was not able to install extensions from extensions.gnome.org.
    Firefox asked me if I’d like to install the extension but after a Firefox restart I still wasn’t able to install any plugins.
    To be precise; this message was shown:
    Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected. Refer documentation for instructions about installing connector.
    The solution was to install the chrome-gnome-shell package;

    sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell

    This fixes the message from both chrome and firefox.

  • Fedora Gnome-shell abnormal high CPU usage in combination with Intel GM 4000 videocard

    I’ve been using my trustworthy thinkpad for a couple of years now, but as soon as I installed Fedora on it, it became quite slow due to gnome-shell using a huge amount of CPU power.
    My thinkpad isn’t the quickest out there, it’s a dual core machine from around 2006, but 50% CPU on two cores for just Gnome was a bit excessive.
    I’ve been searching a lot, and didn’t found any solution, until I started fiddling with Gnome-tweak-tool and saw the “Background logo” entry.
    If you haven’t yet; Install gnome-tweak-tool with the following command:
    sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool
    The background logo is an PNG overlay on your desktop, and that overlay doesn’t work well with Intel GM cards.
    Start gnome-tweak-tool, disable that extention and see your CPU usage drop to 2%, which is what it should be.
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