Nautilus closes instead of minimizing?

[Colin Law]

On 16 December 2016 at 02:47, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:06:29 +0000
> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 15 December 2016 at 05:17, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:57:56 +0000
> > > Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 14 December 2016 at 19:12, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> > >> > Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory
> > >> > '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> What is in that file? It probably relates to a config file that was
> > >> detected as having been manually changed when an upgrade was
> > >> performed.  Could be a clue.
> > >
> > > APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "0";
> > > APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";
> > >
> > > dated 2/18/16, so a bit old. I checked it out a bit - it's a
> > > backup file in upgrades and if old, sounds like it is no longer
> > > needed. Should I just remove it?
> >
> > Yes, just delete it.
> >
> > Can you reconfirm please that you see the same problem with minimise
> > if you logon as Guest.
>
> Yes. If I start multiple instances of Nautilus/Files, but nothing else,
> then press alt tab, there are NO icons except show desktop. When I
> choose that it does show the desktop. Alt tab again offers to restore,
> and all instances of Nautilus are restored. BUT if any instances are
> minimized first, they still do NOT appear as icons, AND when alt tab
> again offers to restore, the previously minimized instances of Nautilus
> are **NOT** restored.
>
> >
> > Have you tried re-installing nautilus?
>
> No. It seems to control lots of things and I was nervous about
> removing/reinstalling it. When I had the KDE desktop and went to remove
> a pgm it offered to also remove what looked like most of KDE. Would
> removing nautilus do something similar?

Removing nautilus would not be a good idea, but reinstalling should be
ok, I am offering no guarantees however, particularly as your system
appears to be in an unhealthy state in the first place.

>
> > Reboot, check that minimise still (apparently) closes the window, and
> > then run grep nautilus /var/log/syslog
> >
> > and paste the result here.
>
> Dec 15 18:16:27 chewie org.freedesktop.FileManager1[1730]:
> kbuildsycoca4(6802) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified:
> "application/x-nautilus-link.xml" in xdgdata-mime
>
> Not sure if that helps. :-)
>
> But thanks for your help...

Sorry, I am out of ideas, other than trying reinstalling nautilus.
Something has become messed up but I have no idea what.  The fact that
it appears that you are the only one ever to have seen this is
particularly unusual.

The only other solution I can propose is to start again, re-install,
check all is well, then add stuff and check regularly that all is
still well. Keeping notes of what you have done. Then if it goes wrong
again we will hopefully know what to do to recover the situation.

Sorry,

Colin