Bug#860796: appears to be linked to the lack of a running "nautilus --gapplication-service"

[Ben Green]

Hi,

Some further observations. Here are two procedures on my system. I run  
these via the gnome-terminal:


Procedure 1
===========
killall -SIGKILL nautilus
killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop
ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist for the  
current session
nautilus &
nautilus-desktop &



Procedure 2
===========
killall -SIGKILL nautilus
killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop
ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist for the  
current session
nautilus-desktop &


The following results are produced consistently:

Results of Procedure 1
======================
So with Procedure 1, I get a working desktop, with clickable folders  
opening out in new nautilus windows. I note also that the launching of  
nautilus-desktop is very fast, almost instant in most cases.

Of course with this procedure I also get nautilus launched with an  
open home folder too due to having run nautilus. The desktops icons  
are fully clickable though. If I close all the nautilus windows, the  
clickability of desktop icons is lost.


Results of Procedure 2
======================
With Procedure 2 I get a desktop, but the icons are not clickable at  
all, they will highlight but never open into nautilus folder displays.  
Even if I then run 'nautilus' icons are not clickable.





Having had a look at this I can do:

Procedure 3
===========
killall -SIGKILL nautilus
killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop
ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist for the  
current session
nautilus --gapplication-service &
nautilus-desktop &

Results of Procedure 3
======================
I get a desktop with clickable links _until_ 'nautilus  
--gapplication-service' terminates (not sure why, it appears to exit  
cleanly).



So, I'm back to thinking that I should have 'nautilus  
--gapplication-service' running, but somehow managing not to  
terminate, and that that is all the problem is.




Cheers,
Ben