Bug#768519: nautilus does not start from dash when it handles the desktop

[Johan Kröckel]

Why not? Gnome-Tweak-Tool seems to be an official product of Gnome and
it worked flawlessly before.

2014-11-11 15:33 GMT+01:00 Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se>:
> Hello Johan Kröckel!
>
> I'm pretty confident the reason nautilus "doesn't start" when handling
> the desktop is because it's already running.
>
> As your videos demonstrates the dash tries to get you back to the
> instance you're already running (on another workspace?) rather then
> start yet another process.
>
> In the case you're running nautilus to handle your desktop you get
> brough back to it when you try to start nautilus again
> (as a file browser).
>
> Basically, nautilus handling the desktop was not designed for
> GNOME 3.x. You're running an unsupported setup so you get to keep
> both pieces (and if you manage to glue them back together, feel
> free to share a patch).
>
> What you probably want to accomplish is to split the "manage desktop"
> part out of nautilus to make it two separate programs.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson