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amethyr

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From: By a computer

Registered: 2010-07-27

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Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

When opening up nautilus either through the xfce panel or terminal each single instance of nautilus opens 6 windows.
This does not happen when openign up thunar.
I have had to delete a xfce session because I left a couple of nautilus windows open and when resuming the session nautilus launched 6 instances of each and locked up arch.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling nautilus.

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scar

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 447

Re: Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

try to create another user and see if it happens there too

if yes, you have a system-wide problem

if not, and everithyng works well, it is a user-specific problem - try to make a backup of your profile and erase it ( or only the nautilus-related things )

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kdotj

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 24

Re: Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

I get this problem too. Also, nautilus opens 6 instances as soon as I log in, without clicking on anything.
Very annoying, I use thunar anyway so I tried to remove nautilus with pacman, it was successful... I then rebooted, and nautilus opened again on log in...

amethyr

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From: By a computer

Registered: 2010-07-27

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Re: Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

Sorry I have been sick and haven't gotten a chance til now.
I was able to log on using a test user and the same thing happened.
This leads me to think this is a system level setting somewhere.
nautilus getts called by both the icon and the comand line from /usr/bin/nautilus
this is the acctual executable not a link

not sure where to change that system variable as it is only for nautilus

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scar

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 447

Re: Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

so, try to remove nautilus, epty your pacman cache ( #pacman -Scc ), and reinstall nautilus

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harovali

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Registered: 2009-12-14

Posts: 6

Re: Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

+1 with the "Nautilus opening 6 instances" out-of-the-blue-and-persisting problem.

Any hints?

thanks
Haroldo

schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 468

Re: Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

This may have something to do with it.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69219

harovali

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Registered: 2009-12-14

Posts: 6

Re: Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

Thanks schen , I solved it following that directions.

amethyr

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Registered: 2010-07-27

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Re: Nautilus opens 6 instances with a single click

so, try to remove nautilus, epty your pacman cache ( #pacman -Scc ), and reinstall nautilus

Alright so i tried removing it. Clearing the repository and then reinstalling it, that did not work.

Also tried to go to the links that were posted but no help.

I edited the correct file with gconf-editor and that did nto help.

I do not run compiz so that is not a problem.

I switched to thunar as the default again unless I need to connect to a server or NAS (which I do rather often).

Tried:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69219
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14110

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