Semi-Spatial Nautilus

For some reason (I’ve not looked into it, so someone please tell me) Ubuntu decided to break the spatial nautilus in Hoary (5.04). Now when you open folder, it opens in a new window (as before), but is closes the previous one.

Not good.

Fortunately, there’s a (relatively) easy way of fixing this:

  1. Run gconf-editor (Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor for the mouse-bound)
  1. Navigate to the key /apps/nautilus/preferences
  1. Tick the checkbox for no_ubuntu_spatial
  1. Sit back and relax, knowing all is now well in the world once more


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