After installing gnome shell in LMDE I noticed only one thing that is non functional
a few control panels do not appear in the system settings
In particular the "online accounts", even though it is installed as well as the complementary libraries, so I cannot synchronize my contacts list
It is funny though that evolution can still sync with google calendars seamlessly, but it gets stuck specifically with google contacts
Can anybody help to solve the issue?
[Solved] Gnome online accounts not working properly
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[Solved] Gnome online accounts not working properly
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Re: Gnome online accounts not working properly
I can't comment about what you should do for LMDE, but bimsebasse has some pointers for running Gnome Shell on Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon that may be helpful here also. See this topic: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 8&t=117580. (Of course, you can't use the PPA as used there...)
Re: Gnome online accounts not working properly
In my experience PPAs can be addedxenopeek wrote:I can't comment about what you should do for LMDE, but bimsebasse has some pointers for running Gnome Shell on Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon that may be helpful here also. See this topic: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 8&t=117580. (Of course, you can't use the PPA as used there...)
if dependencies cannot be resolved because of versioning, I normally do a apt-get build-dep, followed by downloading and compiling the sources with dpkg-buildpackage
That way I get whatever software which might be available for ubuntu / mint up and running on Debian
one solution might be to recompile the goa and goa libraries from the default repositories
if that does not work I might think of trying the ppa sources.
I might also try to recompile the default gnome-shell and gnome-shell-common packages, maybe if they link correctly with the libraries supplied by mint everything works correctly....
let' s see
Re: Gnome online accounts not working properly
When I added Gnome3 to Mint14, I selected gnome-session-common & gnome-session in Synaptic and I was good to go. Do not remember if I had to add anything else at that time.
Re: [Solved] Gnome online accounts not working properly
This is how I solved it
1. There is no need to add Ubuntu repositories
2. I simply recompiled gnome-shell gnome-control-center e gir1.2-goa-1.0 from LMDE repositories (I also recompiled zenity, but that should not make a difference)
How to do it (I make the example for gnome-control-center only)
open your /etc/apt/sources.list file with superuser privileges, you should find the list of repositories for binary packages. For instance for me they are
deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint-packages/ debian main upstream import
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
copy and paste the lines below, but change deb into deb-src.
In the end you should have 8 lines 4 start with deb and 4 start with deb-src
then sudo apt-get update
What follows I do it my way, but you can choose to perform your compilation wherever you want in your filesystem
make a folder named "Sources" in your home
inside make another folder named "gnome-control-center" and open a terminal inside it
give the command:
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-control-center
then
sudo apt-get source gnome-control-center
the last command will download the compressed sources for the package, uncompress it, patch it all automatically
then move inside the directory (in this case due to the latest version of the package) gnome-control-center-3.4.2+git20121016.29d7c0
then give the command
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
merrily wait for the compilation to terminate
then give the commands
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i gnome-control*.deb
this will install all of the recompiled packages
log out and then back in and if you open the system settings you will notice a lot of new control panels will popup, including the gnome online access
however that panel is still not capable to allow connection to google contacts
what you have to do is, following a similar procedure, to recompile gir1.2-goa-1.0
In this case, after decompression of the sources you will find a folder named gnome-online-accounts etc. etc.
recompile inside it and then install all of the new packages generated
then gnome-online-accounts should work
plus your complete gnome settings
1. There is no need to add Ubuntu repositories
2. I simply recompiled gnome-shell gnome-control-center e gir1.2-goa-1.0 from LMDE repositories (I also recompiled zenity, but that should not make a difference)
How to do it (I make the example for gnome-control-center only)
open your /etc/apt/sources.list file with superuser privileges, you should find the list of repositories for binary packages. For instance for me they are
deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint-packages/ debian main upstream import
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
copy and paste the lines below, but change deb into deb-src.
In the end you should have 8 lines 4 start with deb and 4 start with deb-src
then sudo apt-get update
What follows I do it my way, but you can choose to perform your compilation wherever you want in your filesystem
make a folder named "Sources" in your home
inside make another folder named "gnome-control-center" and open a terminal inside it
give the command:
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-control-center
then
sudo apt-get source gnome-control-center
the last command will download the compressed sources for the package, uncompress it, patch it all automatically
then move inside the directory (in this case due to the latest version of the package) gnome-control-center-3.4.2+git20121016.29d7c0
then give the command
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
merrily wait for the compilation to terminate
then give the commands
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i gnome-control*.deb
this will install all of the recompiled packages
log out and then back in and if you open the system settings you will notice a lot of new control panels will popup, including the gnome online access
however that panel is still not capable to allow connection to google contacts
what you have to do is, following a similar procedure, to recompile gir1.2-goa-1.0
In this case, after decompression of the sources you will find a folder named gnome-online-accounts etc. etc.
recompile inside it and then install all of the new packages generated
then gnome-online-accounts should work
plus your complete gnome settings
Re: [Solved] Gnome online accounts not working properly
Same problem here... "Online Accounts" option is not visible anymore in the start menu, and is not displayed in the control center...
But the packages are installed, and I can also see my contacts when I do a search...
Unfortunately recompiling all these packages is not option for me...
I hope someone will find an alternative and easy solution... In parallel, I'll still try to find the option somewhere...
Regards,
Alexboss
But the packages are installed, and I can also see my contacts when I do a search...
Unfortunately recompiling all these packages is not option for me...
I hope someone will find an alternative and easy solution... In parallel, I'll still try to find the option somewhere...
Regards,
Alexboss