Profile selector broken [Gnome extension]

[DanHolli]

Describe the Bug

Profile selector can't change profile on Gnome Extension

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Click on profile selector
2. Click on a different profile
3. Stays on original profile
   (verify)
4. change profile settings (changes shown title)
5. try again
6. stays on original profile

no shown errors

System

Please complete the following information:

• Linux distribution [Ubuntu 24.04]
• Burn-My-Windows version [Burn-My-Windows 44]
• GNOME Shell version: [46]

[Schneegans]

Hi there! I cannot reproduce this. I am on the same Ubuntu / GNOME Shell version and it works fine for me. Did you check journalctl -o cat -f for any outputs while adding new profiles or changing profiles?

What does ~/.config/burn-my-windows/profiles contain? Are there files created / deleted when you add or remove profiles?

Can you use dconf-editor and check the value of /org/gnome/shell/extensions/burn-my-windows/active-profile and what happens to this value when you try to change the active profile?

[DanHolli]

no shown errors or any Burn-My-Windows logs using journalctl

It contains profiles with long strings of numbers. When creating a profile, it creates an empty file. Copying info from one file into one of the new files does allow the settings to be used

Dconf says the folder contents changed, but reloading doesn't show an update to another file. is there a way to view the changes?

[DanHolli]

Manually changing the path in dconf-editor does change the profile in the ui

And now it's working as it should after doing that

[Schneegans]

And now it's working as it should after doing that

But you still cannot change it in the profile selector?

[DanHolli]

Ok, so manually changing the profile using Dconf-editor fixed the selection, but now I can't access new profiles, it instead moves to the first one in the list, maybe this is because the new files are created empty?

[Schneegans]

No, they can be empty until you change anything in the profile. Something seems to be weird on your system...

Can Burn-My-Windows change other things in the settings? For instance, if you use one of the effect-preview buttons in the settings. Does this open a test window with the corresponding effect applied?

[DanHolli]

Everything else works fine, changing effects, modifying effects, changing profile settings, profiles doing what they're set to do, previews, just not the profile switcher

[Schneegans]

I am mostly out of ideas. I have no idea why this specific setting does not work. Do you have by any chance anything in /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks?

[DanHolli]

I don't have /etc/dconf/db/local.d/