Leaving the system and coming back, it was fine and the extensions worked again. Possibly a side effect of bug 1876641 (high memory usage?)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1718850 Title: Gnome Tweaks: Extensions appear off by default and can't be toggled or configured Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-tweaks package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Go to the Extensions panel in Tweaks. System extensions (dock and appindicators) appear off by default, where they are obviously not. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-tweak-tool 3.26.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-11.12-generic 4.13.1 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Sep 22 08:02:59 2017 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-tweak-tool InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-21 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170919) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.6 PackageArchitecture: all Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.2, python3-minimal, 3.6.1-0ubuntu3 PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.14, python-minimal, 2.7.13-2 SourcePackage: gnome-tweak-tool UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1718850/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp