Places Menu

[Brian]

On initial logon, when attempting to click on any of the Places Personal Folders besides Home (Example: Downloads, Video, Music), in the top panel, Nautilus Elementary does not show up. Instead you see the spinning wheel, which eventually leads to a regular cursor (which doesnt take you to the desired folder). In order to open nautilus from the Places Menu, you must first click on Home. After home has been launched, you can then uses the places menu to reach personal folders (music, documents, downloads, etc..)

This is also reproduced when using the bookmarks docklet. You must first click on the home folder in order to use the other personal folders.

[Christopher Keener (keenerchristopher)]

For me, what fixed that permanently was using Alt+F2 Nautilus. After typing in that command, the Places menu works every time.

[Brian (brianf1980)]

Yea, it works fine after running a command for nautilus, but to replicate the issue, try doing this:

Boot Computer > Login > Click on Places > Click on Downloads >

Nautilus will not launch.

Now try this:

Boot Computer > Login > Click on Places > Click on Home

Nautilus will launch as it should. After clicking on the home folder, the places menu works as it should.

Hope this makes sense.

[Dillon King (dillontking)]

Confirming bug and workaround.

[Danielle Foré (danirabbit)]

Marking invalid for elementary OS as Jupiter +1 will not ship with gnome-panel.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Derp. My bad O.o

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

Hello, Can u update from the ppa and check again please?

[Brian (brianf1980)]

Hello

Updating PPA did not resolve the issue :(

[Sebastian Moreno (smoreno-uy)]

Same problem Here, PPA update does not resolve the incident

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

I've done some test and this problem happens when desktop is disabled and nautilus is defined as the filemanager of the gnome session.

So if your desktop is disabled then enable it back (via gconf).

[Brian (brianf1980)]

Hello

I apoligize. Can you give me instructions on how to do so? Theirs so many desktop sections in gconf, im not sure which one to edit hehe,

[donald iljazi (1lj4z1-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

you want to go to '/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop'.

[Brian (brianf1980)]

Oh. I got it.

When I enable the "Show Desktop" setting, I see that the Places folders are visible on the desktop. Is their any way of having these icons hidden but still have the desktop setting enabled?

[donald iljazi (1lj4z1-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

i am sure you can do this through gconf-editor again, don't know the keys though.

[Scott Rosenquist (scottrosenquist)]

Just discovered that this is linked to the fact that in gconf-editor /-->apps-->nautilus-->preferences-->desktop_is_home_dir is defaulted to on, even though the desktop is not used for files. I assume this is used as a hacky workaround to hide the desktop entry from the places menu (it does show up in the places menu when desktop_is_home_dir is disabled.) This may affect how the computer is trying to load documents, downloads, etc. Anyone else want to confirm this?