Nautilus is an X application and it will start in the allready running X session, unless you have more than one
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Trent Shipley <[email protected]> wrote: > OK. No more night time studying on caffeinated beverages after 6:00PM. > I'm getting old and can't sleep through the high. > > > Joseph, can I > > ctrl-alt-f1 > > tshipley> nautilus & > > > I'm thinking that wouldn't work because I'm in the wrong shell. > > > It sounds like I need to issue a command in the shell hosting the > X-server session or in a virtual shell under GNOME, but how would I do > that with no run prompt? (Maybe alt-f2 will bring up a run prompt?) > > > > Joseph Sinclair wrote: > >> This is normally due to Nautilus crashing. (Just like Windows, Gnome >> provides the "desktop" via the file manager). >> Next time it happens, try opening a command prompt and entering "nautilus >> &". If it restores the desktop stuff, you know the cause. Don't run like >> that for too long, however, as some of the Gnome system seems to assume that >> the Nautilus process is parented properly, and will cause weird behavior if >> it's started from a command line. >> >> Trent Shipley wrote: >> >>> Occasionally, when I am using out-of-the-box Ubuntu, I wind up on an >>> empty screen with only the wall paper showing--no system stuff, no icons >>> on the desktop, nothing but wallpaper. I suspect what I am doing is >>> getting to a new virtual desktop, but maybe not because in KDE and OS X >>> a new virtual desktop keeps desktop furniture like toolbars, start >>> symbols, and icons on the desktop. >>> >>> >>> The big problem is that I can't figure out how to do anything useful >>> with the empty screen, so I have to shutdown (with the power button) and >>> restart. (I guess I could look up how to change shells with a key >>> chord, go to a command line shell and 'sudo shutdown -r now' or startx >>> with a new shell number.) But what I really want to do is to go back to >>> where I was (and figure out how to use virtual desktops in GNOME). >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
