I would like a launcher for Nautilus (ie file manager) in my AWN dock.

For other applications like gnome-terminal, Firefox, VLC etc all I had to do was launch the application manually, right click on "Add as launcher" and it worked perfectly thereafter.

When I tried this with Nautilus the icon appeared next to the other launchers but when I click on it, there is a brief pause with the busy cursor and that's it. Nothing else happens.

I tried the File Browser Launcher but that has its problems too. It works OK in that it does at least launch a Nautilus window, but I cannot position it as I wish (the other launchers appear in the Launcher/Taskmanager applet and it's not possible to move another applet into that one) and more annoyingly, I end up with two icons in my dock. All my other launchers appear only once after the app has been launched but a little triangle appears underneath when the app is running.

Can anyone help me to diagnose the problem with the Nautilus launcher please? I am very willing to try to find out what the problem is, but I don't know where to start. As I said, this has worked with all the other launchers I have tried).

Thanks that was very helpful.

The last post in that bug report suggested a simple fix that has done it for me.

If anyone else reads this, the solution is as follows (or was in my case).

Launch Nautilus and then right click on the icon in the dock. Select Add as launcher.

Then go into Dock Preferences, select the Task Manager tab, select the appropriate launcher (mine was called "Home Folder") and edit.

The Command should read:

rather than just:

as mine did.

Making that small change has now resulted in a fully working launcher that behaves as I would expect.

Thanks for your help.