not working on ubuntu 20

[ussamazahid96]

output of the command journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell from the time after I installing and restarting with Alt+F2 and r.

Aug 23 17:07:55 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/misc/extensionUtils.js 217]: reference to undefined property "metadata" Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: META_CURRENT_TIME used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct. Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Object Meta.BackgroundActor (0x5607faab6f20), has been already deallocated — impossible to access it. This might be caused by the object having been destroyed from C code using something such as destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs. Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: == Stack trace for context 0x5607f9623700 == Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: #0 7ffd78d37f40 b resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GObject.js:571 (27485cbb6c40 @ 25) Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: #1 5607f98548b8 i /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop-icons@csoriano/desktopGrid.js:209 (3f097189f088 @ 85) Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: #2 5607f9854830 i /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop-icons@csoriano/desktopGrid.js:148 (3f0971898e20 @ 12) Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: #3 5607f98547a8 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:236 (27485cbd5e98 @ 12) Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: JS ERROR: Error: Argument 'instance' (type interface) may not be null _init/GObject.Object.prototype.disconnect@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GObject.js:571:24 _onDestroy@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop-icons@csoriano/desktopGrid.js:209:45 _init/<@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop-icons@csoriano/desktopGrid.js:148:44 _initializeUI/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:236:16 Aug 23 17:09:19 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: JS ERROR: TypeError: actor.get_meta_window(...) is null _destroyWindowDone@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/windowManager.js:1590:32 onStopped@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/windowManager.js:1560:39 _makeEaseCallback/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/environment.js:73:13 _easeActor/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/environment.js:149:56 _initializeUI/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:236:16 Aug 23 17:09:20 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Unset XDG_SESSION_ID, getCurrentSessionProxy() called outside a user session. Asking logind directly. Aug 23 17:09:20 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Will monitor session 2 Aug 23 17:09:21 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Telepathy is not available, chat integration will be disabled. Aug 23 17:09:22 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Error looking up permission: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for geolocation Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 38 with keysym 38 (keycode 11). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 39 with keysym 39 (keycode 12). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 31 with keysym 31 (keycode a). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 32 with keysym 32 (keycode b). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 33 with keysym 33 (keycode c). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 34 with keysym 34 (keycode d). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 35 with keysym 35 (keycode e). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 36 with keysym 36 (keycode f). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 37 with keysym 37 (keycode 10). Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: GNOME Shell started at Sun Aug 23 2020 17:09:21 GMT+0100 (IST) Aug 23 17:09:23 uzahid-Inspiron-3542 gnome-shell[1985]: Registering session with GDM

any idea why it isn't working?

[ebeem]

this seems like a bug with desktop-icons, are you sure wsmatrix is not working?

[mzur]

Please reopen if this is still relevant.