nautilus not showing up

[Alex Janssen]

Bram Kuijper said the following on 12/02/2007 11:06 AM:
> Hi all,
>
> since a while I can still start any instances of nautilus, but the 
> nautilus windows won't show themselves anywhere. If I give the nautilus 
> command from the commandline, it gives no debug errors or whatsoever. 
> Does anyone has had the same problem?
>
> Although nautilus is not showing up, if I do a ps aux | grep nautilus, 
> all nautilus instances are apparently still running:
>
> bram       355  0.0  0.4  38964  8404 ?        S    15:05   0:00 
> nautilus --no-desktop file:///home/bram/PDF%20Archive
> bram       367  0.0  0.4  38960  8396 ?        S    15:05   0:00 
> nautilus --no-desktop file:///home/bram
> bram       382  0.0  0.4  38960  8396 ?        S    15:05   0:00 
> nautilus --no-desktop file:///home/bram
> bram      1325  0.0  0.4  38964  8400 ?        S    16:46   0:00 
> nautilus --no-desktop file:///home/bram/Varsity/Work
> bram      1512  0.0  0.0   2980   764 pts/0    S+   16:54   0:00 grep 
> nautilus
> bram     14866  0.0  1.8  94064 37076 ?        S    Dec01   0:18 
> nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
> bram     14930  0.0  0.0   2664   900 ?        S    Dec01   0:00 
> /usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/mapping-daemon
> bram     32575  0.0  0.4  38964  8400 ?        S    14:54   0:00 
> nautilus --no-desktop file:///home/bram
>
> Does the --no-desktop flag mean something important? If I look in the 
> help of nautilus, it says that this flag means "do not manage the 
> Desktop", whatever that means...
>
> anyone any info on how to get nautilus showing up on my desktop again?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Bram
>
>   
Is it possible that the Nautilus windows are off the screen?  I type 
nautilus at a terminal window and a nautilus window appears over the 
desktop.  Try renaming ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus to something else then 
restart nautilus.

hth,
Alex

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