Hello.
I have a problem with "open file manager" button, which can be accessed via system tray. It's just stopped responding and doesn't open Nautilus anymore.
Does anyone have this problem?
Can you run nautilus in terminal by entering
"run nautilus"?
Would you please translate the text into english that is shown on your screen?
I can run Nautilus from other places such as menu. I can launch it from terminal by running "nautilus". Only that one button doesn't work anymore.
The text says "Open file manager" and it's the button you can see under mounted SD cards and USB drives:
Do you get any Error Message at the upper Display Frame or does simply nothing happens?
There is absolutely no reaction. No messages, no errors.
I'm not sure what may be causing this, but it should be safe to reinstall the default file manager. Unless you have installed another one, like Nemo or Thunar?
To reinstall, run this command in a terminal window:
sudo apt reinstall nautilus
And restart the computer entirely, just to be sure it's properly updated.
You could try it with entering
"killall nautilus"
to stop opened nautilus prozesses.
Then try it again.
I have Double Commander installed but I believe it doesn't act as default file manager. Nautilus is the default one.
Reinstalling it didn't help unfortunately.
I've killed every Nautilus instance with that command. No change whatsoever.
To be sure, could You uninstall Double Commander and then test if it works again?
I've tried that. No change.
Okay, maybe it is the Gnome Extension. Open Gnome Software and search for ''Exension Manager''. It is this one:
Install it, open it and go to the ''Installed'' Tab. Look there for the Extension ''Removable Drive Menu'':
Turn off the Toggle. That will deactivate it. Make a Reboot and then active it again and test if it works.
I've followed your advice. The button still not working.
Is this something that happens sometimes, or is it constant? Do you remember making any changes recently to your system, or around the time when this issue started to happen? Maybe you installed something, or modified some setting somewhere?
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I'm not sure when the problem occured. Only changes I've made recently are updating my system and installing uLauncher. Aside from that, no new software and/or configuration.
What's about trying this command to set nautilus as default file manager? I am not sure, but perhaps someone knows if it will help.
"xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search"
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Done that, rebooted - no change. If only I could see any logs from that button, it would certainly help.
Try running journalctl -xe right after clicking the button. Not sure if this will show the right logs but it's worth a try.
Alternatively, you could also try:
sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog
And then click on the button. This will show log messages as they happen in real time, so it might help to narrow it down. Try to close other programs if you can, just in case, to reduce the amount of logs that happen at once.
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I would suggest to reinstall it but I didn't found the Package ...
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@Ponce-De-Leon You could look if it is here (found on a post of 2021):
usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions
and there
drive-menu@gnome-shell-extensions
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