Using nautilus as a file manager in xfce

Caspian · 2011-01-19 08:57:56

I decided to use nautilus as file manager in XFCE because I'm having some issues with thunar (slow mounting of removable drives etc.). I've assigned a keyboard shortcut to launch this command "nautilus --browser --no-desktop". The first time I run it everything works as intended, but when I press the keyboard shorcut second time 5 nautilus windows open and nautilus replaces thunar on the desktop (switches to the background used in gnome, raplaces the xfce right click menu with the gnome one, etc.). I am truly confused with this. Anyone has any idea what could be casing this behaviour?

Cdh · 2011-01-19 09:03:17

In gconf-editor you can disable it drawing the desktop:
Set apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop to false and maybe exit_with_last_window to true.

For the opening many windows issue: I think it already was here in the forum, a problem with stored sessions I think. Maybe in ~/.cache?

Caspian · 2011-01-19 09:13:20

@Cdh Thanks for the help. I just rembemberd 10 minutes ago of this gconf entry for nautilus and changed it. This is fixed but I can't seem to figure out how to solve the mutliple windows problem. There is not a single "entry" in the ~/.cache folder for nautilus.

Cdh · 2011-01-19 09:35:59

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111774
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111075
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=106421
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69219

etc.

Last edited by Cdh (2011-01-19 09:36:41)

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#1 2011-01-19 08:57:56

Using nautilus as a file manager in xfce

#2 2011-01-19 09:03:17

Re: Using nautilus as a file manager in xfce

#3 2011-01-19 09:13:20

Re: Using nautilus as a file manager in xfce

#4 2011-01-19 09:35:59

Re: Using nautilus as a file manager in xfce

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