Nautilus acting up

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Monday, December 5, 2016, 11:10:27 PM, Colin wrote:

> 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.

I appreciate your suggestion and will try that when I shut down the
box. I normally have lots of ongoing things that I don't want to
interrupt. Nemo is working MUCH better than Nautilus was, and keeps me
going in the meantime. :-)

Thanks,

 rikona