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.

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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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.

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