In recent versions, gnome-control-center refuses to run under another desktop environment:
$ gnome-control-center Running gnome-control-center is only supported under GNOME and Unity, exiting -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1799675 Title: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center:ERROR:../shell/cc-shell- model.c:458:cc_shell_model_set_panel_visibility: assertion failed: (valid) Status in gnome-control-center: New Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in gnome-control-center package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding gnome-control-center. This problem was most recently seen with package version 1:3.30.1-1ubuntu2, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/8de5ebcde9e4492a3bc570a4caa376cefbdfcbec contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports. If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/1799675/+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