Comment 7 for bug 1723181

On my computer the bug manifested itself when I merely connected a USB flash card, without displaying images. I never use Shotwell but Ubuntu 17.10 insists on opening it when I connect a flash card with photos, although my settings for photos are on “open directory” as they always were – but that is a different issue.

Disconnecting, removing, re-inserting and reconnecting the flash card within the same X session made Shotwell start without problems.

By the way I am using XOrg under Ubuntu 17.10, since *putty* has problems with Xwayward (bug 1720905). During the few days when I was using Xwayward the problem did not appear, though I connected the same flash card at least once.