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
From a console, start dconf-editor
Open the /org/gnome/nautilus/window-state branch
The geometry key holds the startup parameters
You can double click its value to edit it, or just
Enjoy !
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...)