Hello all
I have a problem after installing the desktop client on Fedora Linux, it only shows “activities” and nothing else. There’s no icon or button to click for settings or anything else.
I can see from searching that it’s something that happens from time to time, but nothing of what i have found has changed anything for me.
All the best
Carsten
If that doesn’t help, it’s usually a broken extension. Try disabling your extensions and see if the desktop loads normally. Also worth trying: switch to “GNOME on Xorg” at the login screen (gear icon); a lot of these issues are Wayland-specific. If you are still stuck, try a new user account. If GNOME works fine there, it’s your profile, not the system. My guess: it’s the extensions or Wayland — try those first
The problem here is most likely that GNOME doesn’t have a system tray by default, and the Nextcloud client developers decided it would be a good idea to make the settings accessible only via the system tray icon. 
@Boblebad Install the GNOME AppIndicator Extension. That should make the Nextcloud system tray icon appear in the GNOME top bar, which you can then click to access the settings.
sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
If that doesn’t help, we’ll need a bit more information, e.g. how you installed the Nextcloud client (Fedora RPM, Fedora Flatpak, Flatpak from Flathub, or AppImage from nextcloud.com).
Well, the interesting thing is that i installed it on my other machine i use as a Jellyfin streaming server, and there was no problems. They run the exact same Fedora 44 Wayland Workstation.
I have only installed Tweaks and Dash to Panel - and again, they work fine on my secondary PC. They are of course differently spec’ed, but both in Linux terms, run hideous Nvidia GPUs
And yes, i found threads saying something about tray icons, but didn’t really get anything out of them. And i still really don’t understand why NextCloud Desktop, when it actually opens my activities, why it can’t show me the settings at the same time 
I also, in the same breath, need guidance to the config file, where i can stop NextCloud from deleting my files, if i choose to clear some space on my server?
OwnCloud had that setting on Windows, but apparently they hate Linux, so there’s almost no settings at all, just a fraction of what’s on Windows, can’t really change anything.
I’ll try the appindicator and see what that will do 
Hmm, that didn’t take long. The appindicator didn’t do a thing.
I installed NextCloud Client via:
sudo dnf install nextcloud-client
Ohh, and just to clarify … strike that …
Wanted to take a screenshot from my other PC, and forgot that i uninstalled it, as it came down in a hard crash yesterday involving NextCloud and the Nouveau driver. So i uninstalled it. And now re-installing it - It OF COURSE does not work and i don’t have the settings there either 
I had a complete set of buttons to click above the activities list, but now’ it’s the same as here
Ohh, appindicator doesn’t activate itself on install - i had to go into Extensions 
So that fixed it, now i have settings, and now i know how to get them on my other PC as well
Ah yeah, if you install extensions via the package manager, they’re not enabled by default. I didn’t think of that, otherwise I would have mentioned it. Glad you figured it out.
Either way, I do think Nextcloud should provide a way to access the settings from the main window/activity view as well. In my opinion, tray icons aren’t really a great UX for interacting with an application, which is also one of the reasons GNOME moved away from them.
The annoying part is that many operating systems and applications still use them for more than simply displaying status information. That can lead to situations like this under GNOME, where an application effectively hides important functionality behind an interface element that isn’t available by default.
I also fixed the issue by installing “appindicator and kstatusnotifieritem support” in gnome extensions.
So upon installing it and activating it, this extension, i found that it gives scroll-hangs when in the Extensions App/Settings - so i uninstalled it again.
Having dealt with the horrors of having an older Nvidia GPU (GTX 650) in this system - i’ve had enough for the next couple of years
How did i fix that? ; Bought an older, slightly newer than the Nvidia, GPU (AMD Radeon RX 580)