Hey everyone, I've hit a strange snag with Nautilus after updating to Ubuntu 25.10. Initially, everything seemed fine until I started using GNOME Remote Desktop. Now, Nautilus is only launching when I start it from the terminal. If I click the icon in the Dock or Show Apps, nothing happens. Once I run it from the terminal, I can interact with it normally. I've tried a bunch of troubleshooting steps like reinstalling Nautilus and checking the setup in org.gnome.nautilus.desktop, but nothing looks wrong. I'm at a loss for why this is happening. Any thoughts? Oh, and just to add – I did restart my system eventually, and that surprisingly fixed the problem. Still curious about what might have caused it though!
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When you mentioned launching Nautilus from the terminal, did you run the command `nautilus` directly? If you haven't yet, you could also try using `xdg-open /path/to/nautilus.desktop` to see if that has any effect. Just a thought!
Actually, after all that, I just restarted my system and it fixed the problem! Still baffled why it happened in the first place, but thanks for your input!
I wasn't totally clear about that, but I haven't tried that command yet. I'm a bit stumped on where to find that .desktop file, though! Is it the same as the org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop? Running the command on that just opens it in a text editor.