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Disable all gnome-shell extensions from command line.

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disable-gnome-extensions.sh

	for ext in $(/usr/bin/ls ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions); do
	gnome-shell-extension-tool -d $ext;
	done

HifeFish commented Mar 31, 2025 •

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gnome-extensions list gives a list of all extensions installed (by the user or the system). If you wish to differentiate the two, use ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions for user-installed and /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions for system extensions.

I've had gnome-extensions list give me an error message when run from TTY when gnome had frozen, so using the folder paths may be more robust.

Using dconf, you can also use gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-user-extensions true to disable all user-installed extensions while retaining the information which were enabled when you undo the setting.

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