Bug 508112 - Nautilus doesn't remember window position or size
Summary: Nautilus doesn't remember window position or size
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nautilus
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-25 17:02 UTC by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:40 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nautilus-2.30.1-6.fc13
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-07-27 02:42:56 UTC
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Description Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2009-06-25 17:02:29 UTC
After installing Fedora 11 nautilus now always open in the top left corner with
a default size. This only happens when the "always open in browser windows"
option is selected. In Fedora 10 nautilus remembered window size and position.

[dennis@nexus ~]$ rpm -q nautilus
nautilus-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64

Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2009-08-24 12:22:57 UTC
The same problem here: nautilus-2.26.3-2.fc11.x86_64, Fedora 11.
Works correctly with Nautilus 2.26.1 in Ubuntu 9.04.

Comment 2 Leonidas Georgopoulos 2009-10-01 15:05:16 UTC
same here nautilus.i586                                 2.26.4-2.fc11

Comment 3 Michael Monreal 2009-10-19 07:26:09 UTC
And it is still happening on Rawhide with nautilus-2.28.0-3.fc12.i686. This is probably a really simple thing but totally gets into my daily work :(

Up until this weekend I actually built my own GNOME from source so I already used upstream GNOME 2.28 and I have not experienced the same problem with this, so this has to be Fedora specific.

Comment 4 35472742437j275u27u27k2 2009-11-14 12:38:15 UTC
This problem is also present in Fedora 12 beta.

Comment 5 Leonidas Georgopoulos 2009-11-15 17:57:20 UTC
I do not see why this cannot be fixed. This information is available easily. Even xwininfo returns this. Unfortunately I do not have the time to dig in nautilus code to do it. 

Nobody seems to follow this bug. In more info required or what?

Thanks

Comment 6 Peeter Puusemp 2009-11-16 12:02:42 UTC
I found this workaround:

> The Problem was, that the gconf-key /apps/nautilus/preferences/navigation_window_saved_geometry was missing.
> 
> So create a new one (type: string) with an inital value of e.g. > "600x400+100+100". When Nautilus is closed for the next time it saves its position and size in this key.

Source: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=605621#p605621

Comment 7 Kamil Páral 2009-11-16 12:13:04 UTC
Peeter, you're a life-saver! :)

So it seems this key is missing in system key definitions. This could be very easy to fix.

Comment 8 Leonidas Georgopoulos 2009-11-16 12:48:59 UTC
Almost there. This does not remember the window size for different folders. I.e. if I launch computer or home or a link that I had made on the desktop returns the same position and size for all. The default behaviour in f10 was to remember the window size for each different source. I.e. if I start computer,downlaods link, or network I would get different sizes and positions. 

Still an improvement, thanks Peeter.

Comment 9 Tomasz Sałaciński 2009-12-02 12:50:49 UTC
This still occurs in Fedora 12, but workaround posted by Peeter Puusemp worked for me perfectly.

Comment 10 Benjamín Valero Espinosa 2009-12-10 00:38:05 UTC
Worked for me too.

Comment 11 Maxwell Spangler 2009-12-15 07:46:02 UTC
For those googling a quick solution to this problem, you may copy and paste this command.

gconftool-2 \
   --set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/navigation_window_saved_geometry" \
   --type string "800x600+0+0"

Executed this from my personal user (non-root) account which I assume set it in m local gconf database and it appears to work.

Cheers,

Comment 12 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 15:15:14 UTC
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Comment 13 Kamil Páral 2010-04-27 15:56:55 UTC
This issue is still present even in Fedora 13.

Comment 14 Jihed Amine 2010-07-20 16:43:40 UTC
The Problem is that the gconf-key /apps/nautilus/preferences/navigation_window_saved_geometry  was missing.

So create a new one (type: string) with an inital value of e.g. "600x400+100+100". When Nautilus is closed for the next time it saves its position and size in this key.

Comment 15 Kamil Páral 2010-07-21 08:16:12 UTC
It seems this problem has been fixed upstream.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2010-07-21 12:54:55 UTC
nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2010-07-21 14:25:22 UTC
nautilus-2.30.1-5.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nautilus-2.30.1-5.fc13

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2010-07-23 02:32:25 UTC
nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update nautilus'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2010-07-23 02:38:35 UTC
nautilus-2.30.1-5.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update nautilus'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nautilus-2.30.1-5.fc13

Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2010-07-23 14:14:52 UTC
nautilus-2.30.1-6.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nautilus-2.30.1-6.fc13

Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2010-07-27 02:42:51 UTC
nautilus-2.30.1-4.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 22 Fedora Update System 2010-08-03 00:59:21 UTC
nautilus-2.30.1-6.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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