Nautilus closes instead of minimizing?

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Friday, December 23, 2016, 2:10:02 AM, Colin wrote:

> On 23 December 2016 at 09:43, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2016-12-23 at 08:13 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>> If by the above you mean you see a list when you right click the
>>> launcher, that is not a list of open widows but a list of locations
>>> including your bookmarks, drives and so on you can open.
>>
>> It's both!
>>
>> The first section is bookmarks - add a bookmark and it will appear in
>> the top section of the Nautilus launcher context menu.
>>
>> The second section is Files, and TBH I don't know what that's supposed
>> to do :-) All it's ever done for me is open a window on my home
>> directory, and then only if there wasn't one already.
>>
>> The third section is a list of open Nautilus windows.

> Oh yes, you are right. I had never noticed that. So Rikona what
> exactly do you mean? Do you see a list of windows you have opened
> *under* where it says Files when you right click the launcher, or
> are you talking about something else entirely.

Aha - Karl's comments do make sense. The 1st section does seem to be
bookmarks/places and explains why that's where you go to. I do see
Files in the second section. The third section only has Home - NO
minimized windows. I have seen this dozens of times when I right
click. I never clicked on Files or Home in those sections.

BUT - here's where it gets interesting. :-) Karl said all Files ever
did was open home, so I tried it for the first time, and sure enough
it did open a home window. As I had been doing, I minimized it instead
of closing it. I was going to then try the Home below Files, but when
I right clicked again I got a long list of things under Files that I
had NEVER seen before, and these looked like places that I had
minimized! I clicked on one that is NOT a bookmark or place and DID go
there. Then I noticed that several entries were identical. I clicked
on one of them, went there, but CLOSED it instead of minimizing. A rt
click then showed that entry to be missing, so it DOES look like a
list of minimized windows. I still don't get icons with alt-tab, but
do seem to finally have a way of getting to minimized Nautilus
windows- WHEW!

Also, Home no longer appears in the list below Files as it did EVERY
time before - just the list of windows.

My question is why the list never appeared before I once clicked on
Files?

MANY thanks for your info and suggestions!

-- 

 rikona