Nautilus acting up

[Colin Law]

On 5 Dec 2016 10:16 p.m., "rikona" <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

As I suggested, you need to try running from a live DVD image.

Colin

>
> Thanks for your response.
>
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