Getting dock extension on GNOME 3.2 to work

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After a very quick and smooth install of openSUSE 12.1 I missed one thing on the GNOME 3.2 desktop, though I knew it was installed: the dock extension. On GNOME 3.0 it produced a dock on the right side, the same like when hitting the Activities , then shown on the left. I ran “gnome-tweak-tool” and it did not even see the extension, though it is on disk, in the proper place: /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dock@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org
I googled a bit and did not find anything, so I started comparing the files, beginning with “metadata.json”, compared it to the same file belonging to another extension, that I knew did work, and which did show up in gnome-tweak-tool. I noticed a difference: the dock’s json file showed


 "shell-version":  "3.2.0" ],

the working one


"shell-version":  "3.2.0", "3.2" ],

I changed the line, hit Alt-F2, “r” to reload the desktop, ran gnome-tweak-tool, and there it was. Activated is, and now I have a small black tab on the right, which, when hovered, displays the dock. Brilliant.

There’s a couple of other extensions that share this AFAICT, diving into those now.

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yea I made that change and that still didnt fix it for me. :-/

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disregard… my problem was that 3.0 dock didnt get upgraded when I went from 11.4 to 12.1. After I upgraded the dock extension through software management then applied your fix…that did it.

Thanks!

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This worked flawlessly. Thank you.