Gnome Tweak - Nautilus won't launch when file manager is set to handle desktop
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ugr-seeds |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Basics:
This is with the "dev" repo enabled and UGR fully updated on the date of this bug report.
Gnome Tweak Tool is at version, 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~
UGR is installed on Ubuntu 11.04 final (amd64)
To duplicate:
At a fresh login, launch Gnome Tweak Tool ("Tweak advanced settings") and under "File Manager" in the left sidebar, set "Have file manager handle desktop" to "On". Note that right-clicking on the desktop will successfully bring up a right-click context menu.
Attempt to launch Nautilus from the sidebar.
Expected behavior:
Nautilus should launch and a file manager window should appear.
Actual behavior:
Nautilus does not launch.
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These are the steps I took in troubleshooting:
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In Gnome Tweak Tool set ""Have file manager handle desktop" to "Off".
Launch Nautilus from the sidebar. Nautilus should launch successfully.
In Gnome Tweak Tool set "Have file manager handle desktop" back to "On and close Nautilus.
Relaunch Nautilus from the sidebar and Nautilus will launch successfully again.
In Gnome Tweak Tool set "Have file manager handle desktop" to "Off and back "On" again and attempt to launch Nautilus--Nautilus will not Launch.
*Notes*:
Even though Nautilus will not launch when "Have file manager handle desktop" is initially set to on, It can be launched from Gnome 3 search results by moving your mouse to the upper left corner and then typing "home" for example. This will bring up your 'Home" folder in the search results and clicking on the folder will bring up Nautilus showing your ~/home directory so the problem occurs only when attempting to click on the default Nautilus launcher (command of which is "nautilus %u).
At a fresh login or restart with "Have file manager handle desktop" already set to "On" beforehand, "Nautilus" can be seen running under the 'Processes' tab of the "System Monitor" app and Nautilus can't be launched from the launch bar nor can it be launched by holding down 'ctrl' while clicking on the launcher as you can when you want a second instance of Nautilus by clicking on the launcher.
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That's as far as I got. Attempting to launch Nautilus from the terminal when "Have file manager handle desktop" is set to "On". supplies no feedback at all and just returns a command prompt. Since there already is a Nautilus process running at login I can understand this but I don't know exactly what the solution might be.
I confirm this problem, entirely.
Just another thing.
If you launch nautilus from the terminal with a destination (for example nautilus . instead of simply nautilus) it starts fine.