Comment 19 for bug 194979

Weird how the comments ended back in 2008, cause it's still not working for me, so obviously the bug is still here.
I'm on 9.10 and setting any key to Home Folder doesnt work. I defined a custom hotkey in the gnome prefs and set it to "nautilus --no-desktop". Running this command from a terminal makes a file browser pop up, showing the homedir. Running the custom hotkey does nothing, even though obviously the command gets run, since i get messages in .xsession-errors:
(nautilus:14531): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

This message doesnt seem related to the problem, since i also get it in the terminal, and seems harmless for the operation. It has already been reported here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598918. I just listed it to show that nautilus does get launched when using the hotkey, it just does not open any window.

Other keys work fine (like terminal and mail).