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Interesting, I had the same experience today and can confirm that
nautilus-desktop works if nautilus is started but does not without
nautilus running, too.<br>
<br>
What strikes me odd is the fact, that it only happens on my cloned
systems. That is: I have an Intel NUC running just fine. I cloned
the system to my older laptop and there I experienced this
"phenomena". Then I cloned the NUC system on a virutal disk and ran
VirtualBox. Same thing there. Without running only nautilus-desktop
does not allow me to double click any folders on my desktop. Other
icons like text files work just fine.<br>
<br>
<br>
On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:15:34 +0100 Ben Green <ben@bristolwireless.net>
wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> Some further observations. Here are two procedures on my
system. I run <br>
> these via the gnome-terminal:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Procedure 1<br>
> ===========<br>
> killall -SIGKILL nautilus<br>
> killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop<br>
> ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist
for the <br>
> current session<br>
> nautilus &<br>
> nautilus-desktop &<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Procedure 2<br>
> ===========<br>
> killall -SIGKILL nautilus<br>
> killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop<br>
> ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist
for the <br>
> current session<br>
> nautilus-desktop &<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> The following results are produced consistently:<br>
> <br>
> Results of Procedure 1<br>
> ======================<br>
> So with Procedure 1, I get a working desktop, with clickable
folders <br>
> opening out in new nautilus windows. I note also that the
launching of <br>
> nautilus-desktop is very fast, almost instant in most cases.<br>
> <br>
> Of course with this procedure I also get nautilus launched
with an <br>
> open home folder too due to having run nautilus. The desktops
icons <br>
> are fully clickable though. If I close all the nautilus
windows, the <br>
> clickability of desktop icons is lost.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Results of Procedure 2<br>
> ======================<br>
> With Procedure 2 I get a desktop, but the icons are not
clickable at <br>
> all, they will highlight but never open into nautilus folder
displays. <br>
> Even if I then run 'nautilus' icons are not clickable.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Having had a look at this I can do:<br>
> <br>
> Procedure 3<br>
> ===========<br>
> killall -SIGKILL nautilus<br>
> killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop<br>
> ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist
for the <br>
> current session<br>
> nautilus --gapplication-service &<br>
> nautilus-desktop &<br>
</ben@bristolwireless.net>
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