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

[Marcel Lautenbach]

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.

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.


On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:15:34 +0100 Ben Green wrote:
 > 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 &

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