Show Nautilus bookmarks when right clicking on its dock icon

[Coeur Noir]

Hi…

Don't know if it's related to nautilus or dock.

Bookmarks - default ones like documents, videos, pictures… or manually added ones through ctrl+d - are not displayed on right click on nautilus icon.

Only [ new window | remove from favorites | details ] appear.

( I'm a little dubious about the details usefulness here, too )

I expected all the bookmarks to be displayed on right click, like in Unity.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Seems like this works in jammy, sometimes. Only when there's a Nautilus instance already running or:

  /usr/bin/nautilus --gapplication-service

Although that seems to automatically exit after a while, and so the bug returns.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Well, it used to work all the times in the past because nautils was always running to provide the desktop, but that's not the case anymore.

The only way to get this always working would be to ensure nautilus service is always alive... Or add another daemon for that.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Invalid for ubuntu-dock because it works -- just so long as nautilus is already running or you have 'nautilus --gapplication-service' running in the background. So the main issue is that's no longer running by default. I think it's a matter of opinion as to whether it's worth launching just for the bookmarks or better to not have another process occupying memory just for that.

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Since it's considered opinion, mine is :

it used to be that way in Ubuntu for years ( Unity era ) and I liked its convenience ( fast, visually non-intrusive ).

So what is the proper way to have

nautilus --gapplication-service

running in the background with my graphical session ?

Is adding a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/ enough ?

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Is adding a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/ enough ?

Well sorry, you already answered to that : it's not enough.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Try using the 'Startup Applications' app.

Also check to see if nautilus --gapplication-service stays running or is exiting prematurely.

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Does not work :

It holds a few seconds and stops running.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Looks like it's timing out and then exiting because the exit status is 0. I don't know if that's the right syntax so suggest you open an issue with the Nautilus developers:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues