Abandoned?

[BloodyIron]

Is this extension abandoned then? Last update was February of this year, and no commits have been made since. It's now almost September of the same years (2021) and it hasn't been updated for GNOME 40.

Starting to think I should switch to another extension, this one seems to crash a lot.

[ser]

We don't have another to switch to :(

[InFerYes]

I think it's ironic that the Gnome devs pointed to extensions for not including some options because the extensions already offered it, but then they always break between versions and the extensions often aren't continued.

[ser]

It's the most missed from all abandoned extensions.... R.I.P.

[InFerYes]

It's the most missed from all abandoned extensions.... R.I.P.

This fork works https://github.com/realh/multi-monitors-add-on

I now have the top bar on my 3 monitors again.

[ser]

the replacement stopped working for 42 :(

[ser]

I was able to fix it for 42, commenting out parts of mmcalendar.js and mmpanel.js

[InFerYes]

Can you share the specific changes?

[ser]

in mmcalendar:

        //this._dndSwitch = new Calendar.DoNotDisturbSwitch();
        //this._dndButton = new St.Button({
        //    can_focus: true,
        //    toggle_mode: true,
        //    child: this._dndSwitch,
        //    label_actor: dndLabel,
        //});

        //this._dndSwitch.bind_property('state',
        //        this._dndButton, 'checked',
        //        GObject.BindingFlags.BIDIRECTIONAL | GObject.BindingFlags.SYNC_CREATE);

        //hbox.add_child(this._dndButton);

in mmpanel.js

        //this._leftCorner = new Panel.PanelCorner(St.Side.LEFT);
        //this.add_child(this._leftCorner);

        //this._rightCorner = new Panel.PanelCorner(St.Side.RIGHT);
        //this.add_child(this._rightCorner);

reload gnome shell - voila!

[Jhackler]

I literally just want to keep my top pannel on all montitors why is this not a freaking option in gnome

[BloodyIron]

It's the most missed from all abandoned extensions.... R.I.P.

This fork works https://github.com/realh/multi-monitors-add-on

I now have the top bar on my 3 monitors again.

This got me up and running, but it's not a permanent solution as it wont get updated in the future. This project needs to be actually updated or replaced from the gnome extension website.

[brianjmurrell]

@spin83 Would you accept a PR from https://github.com/realh/multi-monitors-add-on and roll up a new release for this extension?

Or if you are uninterested in maintaining this extension, maybe you can hand it over to @realh to publish future updates?

[ser]

I think it's obvious the author has abandoned the project? You can take it and publish future updates if you want :)

[realh]

I can't realistically take it over because I don't have time to do more than the bare minimum to make the part that shows the panel on all monitors keep working. The extension used to do a lot more than that, improving the UX when managing multiple desktops and in the Activities Overview. I never took any notice of that functionality, so I don't know what it was supposed to do, and how it could do the equivalent in GNOME 40+. This project needs someone with more understanding if any of that can be restored. If I did anything "official" I would really have to make a new extension without all that dead code I don't understand.

[ser]

So realistically you don't have time, but require the author to have time to fulfill your demands :)

BTW, the @realh version does not fully work for me as well, when I click "+" to add, nothing happens. So it's partially fixed only.

[InFerYes]

So realistically you don't have time, but require the author to have time to fulfill your demands :)

What are you saying? You asked him to take over the project and he said he didn't have time. He also never "required" the original author to put more time in. He just changes enough for it to work again with the features he needs with minimal time spent.

@realh I have a few of these extensions that I fix just enough for them to work again, perhaps I can help with this, but same as you I don't know most of the constructs in this code.