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Places in gnome menu lanches terminal window instad of nautilus

Asked by Nico Heiligers

After update from 8.04 to 8.10 the places menu opens terminal window in home directory. instead of lanching Nautilus at correct location.

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Best Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala (tzn) said : 		#1

Please launch nautilus manually (e.g. Alt+F2) and go to /home folder. Right click on the folder with your home directory (it should be named after your username), go to "Open with" tab. Click on Add, search for "Open folder" and select it. Remove all other actions from the list ("Open folder" should be the only one)
Hope this will help.

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Nico Heiligers (nheiligers) said : 		#2

Thanks Tomasz Z. Napierala, that solved my question.

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McGee (georg-mach) said : 		#3

Hi, unfortunately this didn't work for me, but I found a solution on http://www.ignition-project.com/articles/2009/01/08/fix-dolphin-hijacks-the-gnome-places-menu

just do this in your terminal (as normal user not root):

gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/file/command 'nautilus "%s"'
gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/file/enabled true
gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/file/need-terminal false