Hi,
Some further observations. Here are two procedures on my system. I run
these via the gnome-terminal:
Procedure 1
===========
killall -SIGKILL nautilus
killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop
ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist for the
current session
nautilus &
nautilus-desktop &
Procedure 2
===========
killall -SIGKILL nautilus
killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop
ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist for the
current session
nautilus-desktop &
The following results are produced consistently:
Results of Procedure 1
======================
So with Procedure 1, I get a working desktop, with clickable folders
opening out in new nautilus windows. I note also that the launching of
nautilus-desktop is very fast, almost instant in most cases.
Of course with this procedure I also get nautilus launched with an
open home folder too due to having run nautilus. The desktops icons
are fully clickable though. If I close all the nautilus windows, the
clickability of desktop icons is lost.
Results of Procedure 2
======================
With Procedure 2 I get a desktop, but the icons are not clickable at
all, they will highlight but never open into nautilus folder displays.
Even if I then run 'nautilus' icons are not clickable.
Having had a look at this I can do:
Procedure 3
===========
killall -SIGKILL nautilus
killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop
ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist for the
current session
nautilus --gapplication-service &
nautilus-desktop &
Results of Procedure 3
======================
I get a desktop with clickable links _until_ 'nautilus
--gapplication-service' terminates (not sure why, it appears to exit
cleanly).
So, I'm back to thinking that I should have 'nautilus
--gapplication-service' running, but somehow managing not to
terminate, and that that is all the problem is.
Cheers,
Ben
