GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 671859
Startup notification doesn't always work for nautilus
Last modified: 2012-03-12 19:37:36 UTC
Hello, I run gnome 3.2 in fallback mode. the system is extrem reactive, only when i start nautilus via the gnome-menue its takes 10 to 15 seconds to open. Starting nautilus from the terminal its opening instantly, i found this error description on a few other websites, but not here in the bug tracker. Same reports: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11622709 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127645 The started nautilus is, while the 15 seconds opening, usable... just the cursor keeps showing the loading animation, and there is a second tab in the window-panel saying [opening xxx]. So its not to bad, but the opening of two tab in the panel and closing one is irritating in a fast work-flow. **unimportant extra question** I could not debug this myself, nothing in the log files and i could not find a 'gnome-menue-lauch-command' in the gconf editor also and i did not even know where to start to look in the gnome source code. Is there a overview about the components of gnome that helps to navigate and debug gnome3, i came only as far as projects.gnome.org ? Cheers xuedi
You need to identify the .desktop file used to launch nautilus and attach it here. The best way to do this is to drag the launcher to a terminal. It's likely that there's some startup notification issue there.
If a drag the places launcher in a terminal, he is just giving me the path, i made a 'locate nautilus.desktop' and i found two: /home/<user>/.config/autostart/nautilus.desktop http://pastebin.com/jLtG9Mj2 /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop http://pastebin.com/ZbVFH0Xz
(In reply to comment #2) > If a drag the places launcher in a terminal, he is just giving me the path, i Which path? :-) > made a 'locate nautilus.desktop' and i found two: > > /home/<user>/.config/autostart/nautilus.desktop > http://pastebin.com/jLtG9Mj2 Hrm, autostart, shouldn't matter. > /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop > http://pastebin.com/ZbVFH0Xz So that seems to be the one from the package. Just for reference, I don't see this here.
Ah, so something you didn't mention: you start nautilus by clicking on Home in the Places menu, not by clicking the nautilus launcher. I can reproduce in this case.
I just did several launches this way and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. For reference, the way we start nautilus in this case is with gtk_show_uri(). It just feels like nautilus is not completing its startup notification. I'm moving over to nautilus, but I'm surprised that this happens like this. I wonder if something weird could be happening here because of the use of GtkApplication or something similar...
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 660577 ***