Nautilus acting up

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Monday, December 5, 2016, 1:58:39 AM, Colin wrote:

> On 5 December 2016 at 09:46, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5 December 2016 at 06:51, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>>> When I minimize Nautilus, it essentially disappears. Usually, when
>>> something is minimized, a small white triangle appears next to the
>>> icon for that program, and when multiple instances are minimized there
>>> is a triangle for each instance.
>>
>> You misunderstand how the launcher works.
>>
>> The white triangles are for each window the program is currently
>> showing. 1 window, 1 triangle; 2 windows, 2 triangles, etc.
>>
>> It has nothing to do with maximised/minimised status.

> Actually Liam I think (though I may be wrong) that you are
> misunderstanding what Ricona is saying. If two Nautilus windows are
> open there should be two triangles on the left side of the launcher.
> You are right that the triangles should be nothing to do with
> maximised/minimised, but I believe that what Ricona is saying is
> that when he/she minimises the window the triangle disappears and
> the window is effectively closed rather than minimised, which should
> not happen. For me (on Ubuntu 16.10) the triangles do not disappear.

Yes, you got my meaning correct. Perhaps the windows are closing, even
though I have been VERY careful to click the proper symbol. I assumed
that they were not closed, just somehow not accessible, so I didn't
see if they were still there in top. I assume that alt tab DOES show
your open instances of Nautilus, which does not happen on my box.

Any thoughts as to why this was happening? I just installed Nemo,
which seems better than Nautilus, and may stick with that. But it
would be nice to know why it happened. 

Thanks for your response.  

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 rikona