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compiler

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Registered: 2011-12-22

Posts: 9

[Solved] XFCE launches nautilus instead of Thunar.

Hi all.

I have a problem with my XFCE setup: when I login using "xfce" session in Linux Mint 12, I get "nautilus" running instead of the standard xfce desktop + Thunar. I was using gnome+nautilus until I switched to xfce.

If I create a new user, this does not happen, so it seems to be something in my profile (but I don't want to start it from scratch!).

In "Startup & Session" tabs, there is nothing that launches "nautilus". I don't have calls to nautilus also in .config/autostart/ .

If I kill nautilus then I lose the icons in the desktop and when I press "ALT+F2" to exec "Thunar --daemon" nothing happens. The process is running but I can't see any icons. The "Session" components in memory look like the session of a correctly running user.

Any idea on how "not to start" nautilus and start Thunar instead without re-creating the profile from scratch?

I can post any screenshots or file-contents needed.

Thanks.

angstrom

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Registered: 2011-08-13

Posts: 267

Re: [Solved] XFCE launches nautilus instead of Thunar.

Try cleaning ~/.cache

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Xfce is NOT Xubuntu. Bugs in Xubuntu don't mean that Xfce is buggy ...

compiler

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Registered: 2011-12-22

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] XFCE launches nautilus instead of Thunar.

Try cleaning ~/.cache

Ok, thanks, that made a difference.

Now, when XFCE starts up, I can see Thunar+my wallpaper+my icons for a few seconds.

After 2-3 seconds, nautilus is loaded over all this and I see a brown background with nautilus icons.

If I exec "killall nautilus", then I recover my desktop as I wanted it (Thunar+my wallpaper+icons...), but with 2 differences with other system users:

1.- Duplicated volume and battery icons in systray:

With "ps auxwww" I can see a mate-volume-control-applet with I don't remember in previous versions of XFCE...

[sromero@compiler:~]$ ps auxwww | grep -E "(mate|xf)"
07:08   0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
07:08   0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startxfce4
07:08   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startxfce4
07:08   0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
07:08   0:00 xfce4-session
07:08   0:01 xfwm4 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2ec04ed4f-3443-471f-9471-10e9d0cccbe0
07:08   0:00 xfsettingsd --force
07:08   0:02 xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2354f10a0-c3d0-4b0a-8a5c-042994bf7081
07:08   0:02 xfdesktop --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 26e0755fb-8316-4bcf-b996-44c404fad733
07:08   0:00 xfce4-settings-helper --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 251f74596-39d4-46e8-966d-30e9827a7dfe
07:08   0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 20971570 systray Área de notificación Área en la que aparecen los iconos de notificación 
07:08   0:00 /usr/lib/orage/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-orageclock-plugin  5 20971571 xfce4-orageclock-plugin Panel de reloj Orage ¿Mostrar fecha y hora? 
07:08   0:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 281fe27d9-5293-4664-a491-50bcfce587c2
07:08   0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libthunar-tpa.so 11 20971581 thunar-tpa Miniaplicación de papelera Mostrar la papelera 
07:08   0:00 mate-volume-control-applet
07:08   0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4-mount-plugin/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-mount-plugin  21 20971582 xfce4-mount-plugin Mount devices Shows all mountable devices and (un)mounts them on request. 
07:08   0:00 xfce4-power-manager
07:08   0:00 xfce4-volumed
07:08   0:00 /usr/bin/xfrun4 --daemon

2.- When I open firefox, an on-screen-keyboard appears (caribou / antler)

I don't launch it in Session and Startup, so it's being launched maybe due to the same reason as nautilus:

07:08   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/lib/caribou/antler-keyboard
07:08   0:02 /usr/bin/python -c ?from caribou.antler.main import AntlerKeyboardService?AntlerKeyboardService().run()

And, as I said, nautilus is still being launched on each startup, and I need to kill it to get the standard xfce desktop ...

Any idea?

Last edited by compiler (2012-03-15 07:14:01)

wkr

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Registered: 2011-01-01

Posts: 88

Re: [Solved] XFCE launches nautilus instead of Thunar.

I have had a similar problem with Mint9 and xfce and the following fixed it : look at the session tab in "sessions and start-up" : if you found nautilus launched kill it, close all opened applications then log-out ticking save session.

compiler

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Registered: 2011-12-22

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] XFCE launches nautilus instead of Thunar.

I have had a similar problem with Mint9 and xfce and the following fixed it : look at the session tab in "sessions and start-up" : if you found nautilus launched kill it, close all opened applications then log-out ticking save session.

When I enter xfce, with nautilus in memory...

[sromero@compiler:~]$ ps auxwww | grep nautilus
sromero   3402  0.2  0.6 596996 24300 ?        Sl   15:54   0:00 nautilus -n

The process does not appear in "Sessions and Startup"...

In the following screenshot, Nautilus is in memory, you can see the brown background (from nautilus, it disappears if I kill it), the nautilus icons, and the "Sessions" tab:

I don't understand where are being launched nautilus, antler and the "mate" icons in the systray ...

compiler

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Registered: 2011-12-22

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] XFCE launches nautilus instead of Thunar.

The problem is somewhere in the ~/.config folder.

If I make "mv .config config" and relogin, XFCE starts up correctly...

:-?

compiler

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Registered: 2011-12-22

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] XFCE launches nautilus instead of Thunar.

Solved:

[X] Start GNOME services

Was checked on.

Thanks a lot and sorry for the "noise".