Why can I not open a second or third window, and so on, to view directories and files?
If I click the Home Folder button the same Nautilus window keeps showing up.
Why can I not open a second or third window, and so on, to view directories and files?
If I click the Home Folder button the same Nautilus window keeps showing up.
There are multiple ways to open more Nautilus windows:
Open terminal and type gksudo nautilus /usr/share/applications/
press Enter
type your password
Now find files
application. There are two files
which one of them only open one Nautilus window and the other one open more than Nautilus window if you clicked on icons.
Properties
from right-click on each icons, you see there, those are different from another one (see command section)
Now copy --new-window %U
and paste it at the end of command section for other files
application command.
now both of command text box have nautilus --new-window %U
in it.
Choice close and also close applications and terminal window.
Now I assign a shortcut (like Super+E) to open new window every where even if you are not in backgound or another Nautilus explorer is already opened.
Type Keyboard
in dash and open Shortcuts
tab from opened keyboard window. Select Launchers
from left pane and then select second column in front of Home Folder
item, now press your favorite shortcut key (mine is Super+E). After assign close keyboard window and press shortcuted key to open more than one and every where NEW Nautilus Explorer. COOL.
If you have a previously opened Nautilus window, holding Shift and clicking the launcher icon will open a new window. Works for all applications.
Open a new instance of a window: Shift + Left click on launcher icon.
I don't understand how it works, but I had this problem with gedit
too, and I fixed it (and Nautilus/Files) like this:
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
Then change this line:
DBusActivatable=true
to this:
DBusActivatable=false
Also make sure the Exec
command has --new-window
in it like this:
Exec=nautilus --new-window %U
(Mine was like that by default)
According to @muru (in the comments below), you may want to then run this:
cp /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
to make a copy that will override the 'global' one, and should be persisted even after Nautilus is updated by the package manager. However, as noted, this will mean that if the package is updated with new config, you won't get those updates. That said, I'd expect old config files to still be compatible with newer versions of the package. When the package is updated, you can run this to check for new config values that you may want to bring over into your custom config:
diff /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
~/.local/share/applications
and edit that copy instead (it should mask the original then IIRC, but I'm not sure). That way though you'll lose out on any updates to the original, since you'll be using your old copy all the time.