Cannot Open Settings Menu (GNOME)

Document some solutions for not being able to open the Settings menu in the GNOME desktop environment. BUT NOTE THAT even if the problem phenomenon is the same, the cause or solution is not the same. Therefore, the following cases are just to provide some ideas.

After upgrading from Debian 11 to Debian 12, the Settings menu cannot be opened.

Run sudo apt install gnome-control-center to install gnome-control-center⁽¹⁾.

⁽¹⁾ gnome-control-center is a graphical user interface to configure various aspects of GNOME.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man1/gnome-control-center.1.html

Creation Date: 2023/09/09, Last modified: 2023/11/21, Author: Siyuan Liu

Cannot Open Settings Menu (GNOME)

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