rnbdsh@negateWindow: error during installation

[qadzek]

Extension version/Build date

Version 0.02

Cinnamon version

Cinnamon 6.0.4

Distribution

Linux Mint 21.3

Graphics hardware and driver used

No response

Extension name and maintainer

rnbdsh@negateWindow @rnbdsh

What happened?

Hi @rnbwdsh, thanks for creating this extension.

When installing the extension, I receive this error:

Something went wrong while loading rnbdsh@negateWindow. Please make sure you are using the latest version, and then report the issue to its developer.

~/.xsession-errors shows this error:

 Gjs-Message: 13:33:16.184: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error]
  [rnbdsh@negateWindow]: Type name Gjs_InvertWindowEffect is already registered
  [rnbdsh@negateWindow]: Error importing extension.js from rnbdsh@negateWindow
  Gjs-Message: 13:33:16.184: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/trace]

As noted by @aherrman on the extension's page, the solution is simply to change the name field on line 18 in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/rnbdsh@negateWindow/extension.js to something more unique.

By the way, it would also be nice if the Super+i key binding wasn't hardcoded, but was configurable in the Extensions GUI instead.

Other information

No response

[rnbwdsh]

Hi.
I can't reproduce that.
I tried checking out the whole extensions repo and running rg InvertWindowEffect ., shows no other files that use that name. Same for my local ~/.local/share/....

[qadzek]

Thanks for your reply.
I can't find another file on my system or in the Linux Mint GitHub repositories that uses that name.
I have two workstations, both using the same versions of Linux Mint and Cinnamon, and only one of them has this issue, on the other I could install the extension without any problem.
So I don't have any idea what could be causing this. There was at least one other user who encountered this though.