GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 606805
nautilus won't autostart
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:13:09 UTC
This is a bug reported on Ubuntu Launchpad. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/506746 From report: Nautilus fails to autostart. Tried / checked so far: - .config/autostart/* belong to autostarting user and have sufficient privileges, - Tried System->Preferences->Startup Apps launcher with and w/o "--browser=/home/user" and "--no-desktop" options, - Wrapped the Exec entry in the nautilus.desktop gnome file into a shell wrapper and compared the environment settings with no apparent differences. Any more info needed, let me know.
What is "autostart"? Describing the exact steps, the outcome and the exceptions would be helpful...
From reading the report at Launchpad I gather that the user wants to start a Nautilus browser instance after logging in and is trying to use autostart to achieve this.
I tried looking into this and I can't figure out what is going wrong. I assumed the problem would have something to do with Nautilus not running when the nautilus --browser command configured in autostart ran, but nothing I've come up so far has worked (among other things, sleeping for a few seconds before trying to do nautilus --browser). I'm giving up on trying to figure this one out.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.