Messed up my rhythmbox notifications..

mtbrooks33 · #1 29th May 2011, 05:05 PM

After fiddling around with extensions for a while i noticed that my rhythmbox notifications didn't have the normal icons anymore (back, pause/play, forward). Instead the only button avalable is [Next].

Heres a screenshot. Does anyone know how to fix this?

fpmurphy · #2 29th May 2011, 05:10 PM

You probably have a theme selector such as user-theme or themeselector installed. These can cause such a problem. They use an API which is problematic because it causes styling to be messed up.

mtbrooks33 · #3 29th May 2011, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpmurphy

You probably have a theme selector such as user-theme or themeselector installed. These can cause such a problem. They use an API which is problematic because it causes styling to be messed up.

exactly what i thought at first. i deleted the user theme extension completely and tried restarting the shell after choosing multiple different standard themes. no luck

mtbrooks33 · #4 30th May 2011, 02:16 PM

anyone else?

vinaysingh · #5 30th May 2011, 02:22 PM

First run the following as root to update the search index

Code:

updatedb

Search for rythnbox folder under your home directory by

Code:

locate rhythmbox | grep `whoami`

Rename them to something else and see if that helps. If it help then remove the changed folders.

mtbrooks33 · #6 30th May 2011, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vinaysingh

First run the following as root to update the search index

Code:

updatedb

Search for rythnbox folder under your home directory by

Code:

locate rhythmbox | grep `whoami`

Rename them to something else and see if that helps. If it help then remove the changed folders.

just tried that and still no luck. i also used yum reinstall rhythmbox and still the same thing. god this is annoying

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i guess im looking for an "apt-get purge" for fedora.. that way i can be sure i deleted all of the config files. unless anyone knows how to delete them all a different way

vinaysingh · #7 30th May 2011, 04:36 PM

Preferences are specific to users, try creating a new user and then using rythmbox with the new user.

mtbrooks33 · #8 30th May 2011, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vinaysingh

Preferences are specific to users, try creating a new user and then using rythmbox with the new user.

still no luck at all. thanks though, this is a tough problem

mtbrooks33 · #9 31st May 2011, 12:11 PM

any thoughts?

fpmurphy · #10 31st May 2011, 01:38 PM

Remove ALL extensions, both local and global, and reboot. Local live in $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Global live in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Ensure that you have the distribution version of the theme styling file i.e. /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css - not a hacked up version.

mtbrooks33 · #11 1st June 2011, 02:45 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fpmurphy

Remove ALL extensions, both local and global, and reboot. Local live in $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Global live in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Ensure that you have the distribution version of the theme styling file i.e. /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css - not a hacked up version.

how do i determine if its "hacked up" and what do i do to get the distro version?

rhythmbox wont open anymore..

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did some research and apparently an update causes this problem. if you dont mind breaking your rhythmbox notifications it would be nice to see if im not the only one

there is a "yum history undo" just in case

fpmurphy · #12 1st June 2011, 04:19 AM

Glad to see you found a solution.

mtbrooks33 · #13 2nd June 2011, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpmurphy

Glad to see you found a solution.

i mean i still dont have what i want.. even after a fresh install + updates the notification still just displays a "next" button but nothing else. id like to know if anyone else is having this problem, though.

EDIT: just tried to start it up, the first time after the fresh install, and it wont open... again i assume it has to do with an update. any thoughts??

Sanatas · #14 3rd June 2011, 12:49 PM

Same problem here, but i thought it was a new design.

Johan Basson · #15 17th June 2011, 08:29 AM

Hi, I joined the forums specially to give you this reply. I'm facing the same problem as I suspect hundreds of Rhytmbox users are.

This is due to a bug in rhythmbox-2.90.1-3 itself. It worked in rhythmbox-2.90.1-2

The guys down at ArchLinux notified the Gnome team about it.

It is bug Bug 649217

It has been fixed, but seems like the guys from Fedora have yet to make it into a new package/patch.
For more information see

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649217, you can implement the fix yourself if you want.

Hope this helps.

I've also submitted this as bug #714104 on bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714104

Hopefully this gets patched in the next update.