Nautilus acting up

[Colin Law]

On 9 December 2016 at 05:02, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> ...
> Nautilus was "disappearing" when minimized, which is what I mentioned
> in my original email.

The nautilus window is closing instead of minimising.

> I could not find a way to restore Nautilus after it was minimized.

That's because the window is closed.

> When minimized, Nautilus does not show up as one of the icons that
> appear when you use alt tab.

That's because the window is closed

> ...
> Nemo is rather nice, and I like it, but it is not proving to be
> particularly stable on my system, possibly because of that bug. It is
> listed as a low priority "recoverable bug", but it crashes all 5-7
> running instances of Nemo, each with perhaps 3 to 5 tabs. That's an
> awful lot of work to lose, and Nemo is not turning out to be as useful
> as I thought it would be. It would be nice if that could be fixed -
> any ideas?

So are you looking for fixes to Nautilus or Nemo?  Perhaps the
problems are related as I gather they are based on the same orginal
code. Note that in Nemo you may be looking for bug fixes, which is
something you can do little about, whereas for Nautilus it is
something specific to your machine that is causing the problem, which
you can (in principle) do everything about.

If you are still looking for fixes to the Nautilus issues then first
try my suggestion of running from a live image of 16.04 just to check
that you do not see any issues there.

Then copy/paste here the result of
apt-cache policy nautilus

Then I think it is important that we understand the history of the
system further.
Is it a new install of 16.04 or an upgrade?
If an upgrade did the system show any similar odd behaviours before upgrade?
When did the problems first appear?  Was it after you did something
such as installing an app or changing some system config for example?

Colin