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afrodeity
June 7th, 2010, 01:47 PM
I finally have a working nautilus after weeks experiencing a seg fault caused by a dependency problem which I have only now managed to resolve.

It came right after doing this:



gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/nautilus


I then removed nautilus-elementary ppa and downgraded the nautilus-data.

Problem is the nautilus I get is extremely minimal -- really just a window -- which insists on opening new windows whenever I click on a folder.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14887361@N05/4624055717/

I've tried removing .nautilus on several occasions.

What are the default settings?

Is there a more convenient way of editing nautilus?

Striks me this has something to do with settings gconf. I'm going to play around and see if any of them fix this creature.

afrodeity
June 7th, 2010, 01:51 PM
Solved it:

Alt-F2

type: gconf-editor

Go to Apps > Nautilus > Preferences > Always use browser enable

My browser was disabled as the lucid upgrade failed to deal with the possiblity I had nautilus-elementary installed.

We really need to figure out a better way forward, since Nautilus-Elementary is really awesome when it works.

cheyo
October 21st, 2010, 06:50 PM
Hey, this works!

I upgraded from lucid 32 bit to Maverick 64 bit and nautilus elementary had this "blank search" bug, so i returned to the "bundled" nautilus, but the edit/preferences dialog was gone.

Following your advice, i did this

* del ~/.nautilus

* Alt-F2

* type: gconf-editor

* Go to Apps > Nautilus > Preferences > CHECK AND UNCHECK "Always use browser enable"

* killall nautilus

Problem solved! preferences dialog is back.

Thank you afrodeity! :)