Nautilus - The GNOME file manager

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Nautilus : how to reset its window parameters ?

Situation

Some time ago, while using a dual-screen display, I opened Nautilus, moved its window to the secondary screen and maximized it. Now, EVERY time I open Nautilus, its window pops as maximized on my 2nd screen, which is getting annoying.

Solution

  1. From a console, start dconf-editor
  2. Open the /org/gnome/nautilus/window-state branch
  3. The geometry key holds the startup parameters
  4. You can double click its value to edit it, or just
  5. Enjoy !
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Nautilus is eating memory

Situation

Nautilus uses up to 300MB of RAM, whereas its expected memory footprint should be less than 30MB.

Details

Looks like there are memory leaks in Nautilus (fixed in version 3.4.2 ?) occurring when opening directories having a large number of files (including the Trash directory...)

Solution

Just kill -1 the Nautilus process and restart it.
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Nautilus : how to show the path as text instead of buttons ?

Method 1
CTRL-l
Method 2 (with Gnome)
  1. Applications | System Tools | Configuration Editor | Apps | Nautilus | Preferences
  2. set always_use_location_entry to true