GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 679923
Spinning cursor when having nautilus handle the desktop in Ubuntu
Last modified: 2012-08-12 20:29:29 UTC
When using the gnome-shell desktop environment in Ubuntu (tested on 11.10 and 12.04) there is an annoying bug with nautilus regarding the mouse cursor on nautilus startup. When you start nautilus by clicking on the gnome-shell-icon the mouse cursor will keep spinning for at least half a minute. (sometimes there also is a spinning wheel on the top panel. This happens only when you have nautilus handle the desktop. I have found out when the bug occurs and when it does not: Bug occurs when: clicking the icon on the gnome-shell-panel clicking on the icon of the gnome-extension (Frippery Panel Favorites) clicking on the link to a sub-folder of the home directory using the gnome-shell extension All-in-one-Places clicking on the notification which appears when inserting a hard drive of some kind Bug does not occur when: clicking on the link to the home directory using the gnome-shell extension All-in-one-Places clicking on a direct desktop icon to the home folder or any other folder starting nautilus via terminal I also tested this using the ubuntu server version (12.04) and installing the gnome shell manually without any unity files This bug does not occur on Fedora or any other distribution using gnome-shell, therefore I assume it must have something to do with Ubuntu and Nautilus, respectively the gnome shell.
there is also a spinning wheel in the top panel
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 664147 ***
Additionsal requirements for this bug to occur: On Ubuntu 12.10 alpha 3 this bug only appeared when automatic logon was activated. When entering a passwort bevore loon the bug did not appear. Probably has something to to with the keyring?