Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
I hope this is the right place here, as this apparently is isolated to
the Nautilus version for Ubuntu 10.04 distributed with the nautilus-
elementary PPA. I cannot file a bug in that PPA's launchpad page, and
neither does 'ubuntu-bug nautilus' succeed (not a genuine Ubuntu
package), so I'm filing this here.
Here the info on my system and the package in question:
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
GNOME nautilus 2.31.1 - 2.31.1-0ubuntu2~ppa92
When pressing the keyboard hotkey XF86Favorites when the desktop (*not*
a Nautilus window!) has "focus", a small "Edit Bookmarks" dialog window
opens in the middle of the screen (looks like the same window as the
"Edit Bookmarks..." entry or CTRL+B from the Nautilus menu, but doesn't
open a full-scale Nautilus window when a bookmark is selected). When
opening any bookmark folder there via double-click or the "Jump to"
button, another window opens, which is sort of a stripped down Nautilus
window merely displaying the folder content.
In this tiny Nautilus window, whenever I try to use the menubar, I can
click the menubar and the submenu pops up, but as soon as I hover the
cursor over any submenu item, or try to select one with the cursor keys,
nautilus crashes and restarts completely, just like when entering
"nautilus -q". The same happens when I try to click the "close" button
(little x button of the window decoration) of that small nautilus
window.
The very same "Edit Bookmarks" dialog window can also be opened when
pressing CTRL+B while the desktop has "focus". When double-clicking any
item there, the same tiny Nautilus window appears displaying that
folder's content. But in this case, Nautilus won't crash as explained
above, so it seems to be linked somehow to being opened by the
XF86Favorites hotkey.
I assume this bug is low priority as only few people will probably ever
come across this issue given the fact, that only rather few keyboards
have that XF86Favorites hotkey, anyway.
I run across this issue on Ubuntu 10.04 with Nautilus 2.31.1 (from
nautilus-elementary PPA, latest version for Ubuntu 10.04; issue does not
occur in Nautilus 2.30.1, which is the latest version in the Ubuntu
repos) and confirmed it with the same version on another Ubuntu
installation in a virtual machine. It does not matter whether I use
Compiz or Metacity as the Window Manager. I could not reproduce the bug
on yte another machine running Ubuntu 10.10 and Nautilus 2.32.0 (though,
standard version from the Ubuntu repos, *not* from the nautilus-
elementary PPA), however, so possibly it has already been fixed in that
version.
For those who do not have the XF86Favorites hotkey, the following
terminal commands apparently simulates the stroke of such a button, so
you might be able to confirm the issue (xvkbd or xdotool probably need
to be installed first):
$ xvkbd -xsendevent -window desktop_window -text "\[XF86Favorites]"
Or this more complicated one (one complete line):
$ desktopid=`xdotool search --name desktop_window` && xdotool
windowactivate $desktopid && xdotool windowfocus $desktopid && xdotool
key XF86Favorites
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Nautilus 2.31.1 crashes reproducibly when window opened via
XF86Favorites keyboard hotkey
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