Gnome animations gone after upgrade to 18.04





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All animations were working in 17.10 before upgrading. Afterward, no animations.



The "Animations" toggle in tweaks is "On". I've confirmed that using the dconf editor. I tried toggling it, but all animations seem to be off either way, including the dock hiding, which I turned on. When a window approachs the dock, it simply vanishes as if the animations were off.



I checked journalctl -b0 for any clues but there's no warnings, failures, etc.



I did try a Wayland session for kicks but that completely failed. Related?



Anyway, at least everything else in the Xorg session appears to be working just fine. It's not a big deal. But I'm mystified.



Any ideas?





Solution



Okay, I figured this out. The artful installer left nux-tools, left over from unity, in a half-installed state but did purge it. This left a start up script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d which interfered with the gnome-session in bionic. Purged that and the problem was gone.



So this is a dependency bug in the nux-tools package (or perhaps some mistakenly identified changed file which the package partly installed and turned into evil cruft). Sigh. Took me a long time to find this.



May this report help somebody else. Be careful to remove all of nux-tools which switching over from Unity.










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  • How did you figure out which script it was? I have a dozen..

    – Pithikos
    Aug 2 '18 at 21:11






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    I skimmed through them. Most of them are not that long. Anyway, the one you need to worry about is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50_check_unity_support.

    – Martin W
    Aug 3 '18 at 22:33


















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All animations were working in 17.10 before upgrading. Afterward, no animations.



The "Animations" toggle in tweaks is "On". I've confirmed that using the dconf editor. I tried toggling it, but all animations seem to be off either way, including the dock hiding, which I turned on. When a window approachs the dock, it simply vanishes as if the animations were off.



I checked journalctl -b0 for any clues but there's no warnings, failures, etc.



I did try a Wayland session for kicks but that completely failed. Related?



Anyway, at least everything else in the Xorg session appears to be working just fine. It's not a big deal. But I'm mystified.



Any ideas?





Solution



Okay, I figured this out. The artful installer left nux-tools, left over from unity, in a half-installed state but did purge it. This left a start up script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d which interfered with the gnome-session in bionic. Purged that and the problem was gone.



So this is a dependency bug in the nux-tools package (or perhaps some mistakenly identified changed file which the package partly installed and turned into evil cruft). Sigh. Took me a long time to find this.



May this report help somebody else. Be careful to remove all of nux-tools which switching over from Unity.










share|improve this question

























  • How did you figure out which script it was? I have a dozen..

    – Pithikos
    Aug 2 '18 at 21:11






  • 1





    I skimmed through them. Most of them are not that long. Anyway, the one you need to worry about is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50_check_unity_support.

    – Martin W
    Aug 3 '18 at 22:33














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All animations were working in 17.10 before upgrading. Afterward, no animations.



The "Animations" toggle in tweaks is "On". I've confirmed that using the dconf editor. I tried toggling it, but all animations seem to be off either way, including the dock hiding, which I turned on. When a window approachs the dock, it simply vanishes as if the animations were off.



I checked journalctl -b0 for any clues but there's no warnings, failures, etc.



I did try a Wayland session for kicks but that completely failed. Related?



Anyway, at least everything else in the Xorg session appears to be working just fine. It's not a big deal. But I'm mystified.



Any ideas?





Solution



Okay, I figured this out. The artful installer left nux-tools, left over from unity, in a half-installed state but did purge it. This left a start up script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d which interfered with the gnome-session in bionic. Purged that and the problem was gone.



So this is a dependency bug in the nux-tools package (or perhaps some mistakenly identified changed file which the package partly installed and turned into evil cruft). Sigh. Took me a long time to find this.



May this report help somebody else. Be careful to remove all of nux-tools which switching over from Unity.










share|improve this question
















All animations were working in 17.10 before upgrading. Afterward, no animations.



The "Animations" toggle in tweaks is "On". I've confirmed that using the dconf editor. I tried toggling it, but all animations seem to be off either way, including the dock hiding, which I turned on. When a window approachs the dock, it simply vanishes as if the animations were off.



I checked journalctl -b0 for any clues but there's no warnings, failures, etc.



I did try a Wayland session for kicks but that completely failed. Related?



Anyway, at least everything else in the Xorg session appears to be working just fine. It's not a big deal. But I'm mystified.



Any ideas?





Solution



Okay, I figured this out. The artful installer left nux-tools, left over from unity, in a half-installed state but did purge it. This left a start up script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d which interfered with the gnome-session in bionic. Purged that and the problem was gone.



So this is a dependency bug in the nux-tools package (or perhaps some mistakenly identified changed file which the package partly installed and turned into evil cruft). Sigh. Took me a long time to find this.



May this report help somebody else. Be careful to remove all of nux-tools which switching over from Unity.







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  • How did you figure out which script it was? I have a dozen..

    – Pithikos
    Aug 2 '18 at 21:11






  • 1





    I skimmed through them. Most of them are not that long. Anyway, the one you need to worry about is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50_check_unity_support.

    – Martin W
    Aug 3 '18 at 22:33



















  • How did you figure out which script it was? I have a dozen..

    – Pithikos
    Aug 2 '18 at 21:11






  • 1





    I skimmed through them. Most of them are not that long. Anyway, the one you need to worry about is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50_check_unity_support.

    – Martin W
    Aug 3 '18 at 22:33

















How did you figure out which script it was? I have a dozen..

– Pithikos
Aug 2 '18 at 21:11





How did you figure out which script it was? I have a dozen..

– Pithikos
Aug 2 '18 at 21:11




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I skimmed through them. Most of them are not that long. Anyway, the one you need to worry about is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50_check_unity_support.

– Martin W
Aug 3 '18 at 22:33





I skimmed through them. Most of them are not that long. Anyway, the one you need to worry about is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50_check_unity_support.

– Martin W
Aug 3 '18 at 22:33










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