possibly related to bug 609714, though not exactly the same.

did you build from jhbuild, or from some sort of package?

Does gnome-shell print any warnings, either at startup or when you enter the overview?

From ebuild from suka overlay.

It prints a lot of erors (mostly clutter). I don't have a full log. Nothing in particular when I click.

Search works for preferences.

try building from jhbuild according to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#Building. If that works, then "ebuild from suka overlay" is broken. Probably xdg dir lossage or something.

Also, you shouldn't get "a lot" of clutter errors.

(In reply to comment #3)
> try building from jhbuild according to
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#Building. If that works, then "ebuild from
> suka overlay" is broken. Probably xdg dir lossage or something.

After reloging/restart the problem is gone.


The options given to configure are:
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

It is 'pure' ./configure && make all install so I don't see how it can be broken.

> 
> Also, you shouldn't get "a lot" of clutter errors.

By "a lot" I mean that it overflow text console on 1680x1050. At least currently I don't see any problems with them in .xsession-errors.