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There is some behavior I can't understand in the Unity Desktop.

  1. Open nautilus via. clicking in the launcher onto the home-button
  2. Navigate to for example the windows-partition in nautilus
  3. Minimize nautilus
  4. Click on nautilus in the launcher doesn't open the nautilus with windows-partition, instead it opens a new window with the home folder.

Is there a workaround for this strange behavior?

Regards, Arthur

αғsнιη
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This has been confirmed to be a bug on nautilus. You may add yourself to this bug as it affects you(you will need a launchpad account to do this).

The easiest workaround for this is to hover over to the nautilus icon on the launcher using your mouse pointer and scroll using the middle button if you are using a mouse. If not, you can use the touchpad's scrolling feature, i.e., either two-finger scrolling or edge scrolling or whatever you use to scroll using your touchpad.

(Source)

Note: This feature of bringing an already open window to the front works with all applications on Ubuntu 14.04.

jobin
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  • Thank you for your answer! The workaround doesn't work. When I left-click on the nautilus launcher in the list there are only my bookmarks and at the bottom "Files", altough I have currently openend my windows-partition in nautilus. Selecting files opens up a new nautilus window with my home folder. – 8200 May 09 '14 at 18:50
  • @8200: You don't need to left-click, you just need to scroll. – jobin May 09 '14 at 19:20
  • it's not a bug. – αғsнιη Sep 02 '14 at 10:32
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Well here is what I did,

1) Unlock "Files" icon from panel.

2) Goto DASH

3) type in Files and Launch it.

Now if you would minimize and then click on the Nautilus, it behaves the way we want it to. :D

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When you open Nautilus window it open Nautilus file manager and when you click on every windows-partition it mount new window under devices an appear in mounted partition in launcher. then use mounted partition icons under files. see this screen shot below:

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After you click on windows-partition you will see windows-partition on launcher is highlighted. and if you want to open minimized windows-partition click on highlighted icon

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αғsнιη
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I installed udisks and stopped having this issue. I don't know if it's an intentional feature of the program, but I certainly appreciate it!

If you want to try it:

sudo apt-get install udisks
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  1. unlock files from launcher

  2. open terminal and write 

    sudo gedit '/usr/share/applications/Home.desktop'

  3. create New Launcher Files

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=Home
Comment=Open Home
Exec=nautilus
Icon=folder-home
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;
  4. save and close
  5. go to dash and search for Home
  6. drag and drop it to launcher 'now it replaced the last files but if you open new window it will do the same as nautilus'
  7. trick here is to reopen files and lock to launcher again
  8. unlock files from launcher
  9. now home will replace the nautilus and Files will only seen if you open any file
WinEunuuchs2Unix
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I was having this issue too. On my system I found that installing unity-tweak-tool and clicking on "reset to default" in the launcher menu fixed this problem... Give it a shot!

Cmon
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