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Desktop launchers are missing after quitting Nautilus

Asked by Budo Zindovic

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my netbook and I've made a few launchers (app shortcuts) on my desktop. At one point, after installing plug-ins in Nautilus, I've had to restart it with the "nautilus -q" command. After that, all of my desktop launchers were gone. When I restarted Nautilus, the launchers were back. It seems that Nautilus is responsible for (or maybe is interfering with) the displaying of the desktop in Unity.

IS there any way to prevent this "disappearing" of desktop launchers?

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samuel (samuel-h) said : 		#1

By desktop launchers, do you mean launchers on the sidebar, or launchers actually on your desktop?

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Budo Zindovic (bzindovic) said : 		#2

I mean the actual desktop launchers.

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Budo Zindovic (bzindovic) said : 		#3

I kept them from my previous Linux distro. They disappeared after I quit Nautilus and reappeared after restarting it.

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samuel (samuel-h) said : 		#4

search in the dash startup applications, and add the open the program that appears. Click add, then under name call it whatever you want (something like desktop) then as the command put nautilus -n
You can leave the description empty. Logout, then log back in again and it should work.

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Budo Zindovic (bzindovic) said : 		#5

Samuel,

Thank you for the tip but it didn't solve my problem. My desktop launchers went missing after I did "nautilus -q" in terminal. I've put the "--no'desktop" option in the startup applications and it also didn't solve my problem. It seems that the desktop launchers are displayed if Nautilus is running.

Maybe this should be transferred to bug section?

Regards.

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samuel (samuel-h) said : 		#6

one final thing to try, type this into a terminal (you can open this with ctrl+alt+t) rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus

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Budo Zindovic (bzindovic) said : 		#7

Samuel,

Thank you for another suggestion. I kept the startup app fix and did the removal of nautilus gconf dir. Unfortunately, it didn't resolve my problem. The launchers on my desktop disappeared one again after quitting nautilus with "nautilus -q".

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