#645383 Opened a window showing $HOME at session start

Package:
nautilus
Source:
nautilus
Description:
file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
Submitter:
Josh Triplett
Date:
2014-07-21 17:24:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#645383#3
Date:
2011-10-15 06:55:31 UTC
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I just upgraded nautilus and various other packages to the newest bits
from unstable.  I then restarted gdm3 to make sure that nothing went
horribly wrong with my now-partially-GNOME3 desktop.  As soon as my
session started, nautilus popped up, showing my home directory.  This
bug reliably reproduces every time my session starts.

- Josh Triplett
#645383#8
Date:
2011-10-15 07:09:34 UTC
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Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 à 23:55 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :

You probably have a nautilus instance in your saved session.
#645383#13
Date:
2011-10-15 18:25:18 UTC
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Sure enough, I just checked the "Startup Applications" preferences, and
I have an entry named "Files", with no description, which runs the
command "nautilus -n".

Note, though, that I didn't get a window popping up at the start of my
session until after I upgraded.  What changed?  How did nautilus end up
in my session, or did my session always contain nautilus and it only
started opening a window after I upgraded?  Either way, it seems likely
that this could happen to other users, who shouldn't have to dig around
in their preferences to fix it.

- Josh Triplett
#645383#18
Date:
2011-10-15 20:55:23 UTC
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Le samedi 15 octobre 2011 à 11:25 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :

If you want the whole explanation, nautilus used to be started to draw
icons on the desktop and it is not anymore, and the options of the
nautilus binary have changed. So it used to be in a session you saved,
and now when the session starts it, it starts in a different way.

We should probably use a different place for saved sessions now, but…
upstream decision.
#645383#23
Date:
2011-10-16 00:53:25 UTC
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didn't draw my desktop before, either.

Any way to handle this issue automatically, and fix the user's session
somehow?  Problems with saved sessions seem to happen rather often when
upgrading to new versions of GNOME.  I don't mind hitting such issues as
a user of unstable, but I'd like to help prevent users of testing and
stable from having to deal with them.

As for how I should fix this issue myself, should I just delete nautilus
from my session, or change the entry somehow, or wait for some automatic
migration to fix the problem so I can help test it?

- Josh Triplett
#645383#28
Date:
2014-07-21 17:20:21 UTC
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Hey Josh,

Should we close this bug ? it seems obsolete nowadays.

thanks
regards
Pedro