Todays update reset the nautilus.desktop file rendering marmuta's solution useless I had to reset it manualy to false again as gnome started spawning happely again :-)
As Marmuta's solution isn't shown here and the original thread featuring it was closed I quote it here: Marmuta says: Fwiw, the one workaround I found was that I can stop gnome-session from respawning nautilus by setting X-GNOME-AutoRestart=false in /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop. -- "Starting File Manager" windows open uncontrollably https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325973 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs