Bug#1115481: gnome-tweaks does not start

Michael Ott michael at k-c13.org
Wed Sep 17 11:24:43 BST 2025


Package: gnome-tweaks
Version: 49.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

try to start gnome-tweaks. On command line it shows me this output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-tweaks", line 100, in <module>
    from gtweak.app import GnomeTweaks
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gtweak/app.py", line 13, in <module>
    from gtweak.tweakview import Window
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gtweak/tweakview.py", line 20, in
<module>
    from gtweak.tweaks.tweak_group_startup import TWEAK_GROUP as
StartupApplicationTweaks
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_group_startup.py",
line 348, in <module>
    TWEAK_GROUP = AutostartTweakGroup()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_group_startup.py",
line 243, in __init__
    self._startup_dapps = self._get_startup_desktop_files()
                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_group_startup.py",
line 323, in _get_startup_desktop_files
    dappinfo = Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new_from_filename(file)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/__init__.py", line 37, in
__getattr__
    return getattr(self._introspection_module, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/module.py", line 127, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError("%r object has no attribute %r" % (
                         self.__name__, name))
AttributeError: 'gi.repository.Gio' object has no attribute 'DesktopAppInfo'



-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (710, 'unstable'), (670, 'testing'), (660, 'experimental'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.16.7+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-tweaks depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.49.0-1
ii  gir1.2-adw-1                                 1.8.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     49.0-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              2.86.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-4.0                      44.4-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-4.0                               4.20.1+ds-2
ii  gir1.2-gudev-1.0                             238-7
ii  gir1.2-notify-0.7                            0.8.6-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.56.3-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        48.1-2
ii  gnome-shell-common                           49.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    49.0-1
ii  mutter-common                                49.0-2
ii  python3                                      3.13.7-2
ii  python3-gi                                   3.52.3-1
ii  user-session-migration                       0.5.0

gnome-tweaks recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-tweaks suggests:
ii  gnome-shell-extension-manager  0.6.3-2+b1

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