# Gnome "classic session" messed up in 9.6
**URL:** https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support
**Created:** [June 12, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769 "2025-06-12T08:01:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@gerry666uk](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/gerry666uk)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769/1 "2025-06-12T08:01:00Z")
Gnome classic session has a bottom bar showing tabs for each open application, and also a workspace list on the right. It’s always worked in Rocky 8.x and Rocky 9.x, but something has gone wrong in 9.6; the left side is squashed up, the text color and background color is wrong, and the workspace tabs disappear.
The bottom bar is provided by extension:
gnome-shell-extension-window-list-40.7-19.el9.noarch
gnome-shell-extension-window-list-40.7-25.el9.noarch
There are a huge number of changes to the source code of these two packages.
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### Author:  [@scldad](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/scldad)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769/2 "2025-06-26T06:13:56Z")
Any sign of fix for this. It’s a real pain.
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### Author:  [@gerry666uk](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/gerry666uk)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769/3 "2025-06-29T14:35:48Z")
I’m testing an interesting work-around.
‘gnome-classic-session’ depends on ‘gnome-shell-extension-window-list’, so even if you knew what was wrong, and could build a new rpm it would be hard to integrate it with the official dnf system, but gnome, xdg, freedesktop provide a way to override settings using ~/.local/xyz.
The window list extension consists of a handful of \*.js and \*.css files, plus a gsettings schema. I extracted the files from the Rocky 9.5 version and copied them (with relative paths) to ~/.local, I thne log out and log back in again, and the old extension is now active and works.
I was expecting a horrible clash, as I’ve still got the newer extension installed, but the version in ~/.local takes precedence. In the gnome extensions app, it shows my custom version as “Manually Installed”. If they ever fix the real one, I can disable in gnome extensions app, and then delete the files from ~/.local
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### Author:  [@scldad](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/scldad)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769/4 "2025-06-30T08:40:41Z")
I did another update yesterday and the problem SEEMS to have gone away.
No disappearing workspaces for several hours.
The update did include a couple of gnome components.
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### Author:  [@gerry666uk](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/gerry666uk)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769/5 "2025-06-30T19:28:29Z")
Interesting, I also noticed there wee some new gnome components available, but could not see this exact extension, so didn’t bother updating, I’ll need to try an update soon…
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### Author:  [@gerry666uk](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/gerry666uk)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769/6 "2025-07-05T10:02:13Z")
The workspace indicator may be fixed, but the bottom bar still looks wrong to me.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/gnome-classic-session-messed-up-in-9-6/18769/7 "2025-09-03T10:03:05Z")
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