Messy nautilus shortcuts

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Hello,

When I installed Manjaro, I used to have a clean shortcuts panel in nautilus, with home folder, downloads, images, videos, etc on the top, a separating line, and custom shortcuts in the bottom.

After an update, everything have been messed up :

Capture d’écran du 2025-04-19 10-36-40
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I can said wich update exactly, because it was some months ago, and I didn’t had time search more at this moment.

I use aur’s nautilus-typehead. I already checked the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs which has nothing special. I found nothing in dconf about this. The menu is ok when another software open a “save file” or “select file” window.

How to get back the normal behaviour ?

Thanks for your help

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A custom package build using AUR recipe is unsuppored.

This is most possibly caused by an incompatible extension.

If you already know which extension - then remove it.

So - the way forward is to disable all custom extensions - then enable one by one until you find the cause.

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Thanks for you answer.

I just tried :

  1. disable all gnome extensions
  2. uninstall nautilus-typehead and reinstall default nautilus from the repository
  3. uninstall all nautilus extensions
  4. reboot.

The problem persists.

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I’m not following. Your screenshot looks “normal” to me. It’s possible you noticed upstream design changes that looked different from previous versions.

Either way, neither using nautilus-typeahead nor extensions will make a difference.

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I’m not following. Your screenshot looks “normal” to me.

Downloads, Images, Videos, Documents, etc folders used to be in the above part, with Home, Dustbin, and Networks. Which is a more logical place as these are not custom bookmarks.

It’s possible you noticed upstream design changes that looked different from previous versions.

So we are in an “It’s not a bug. It’s a feature” syndrome ? Is there a way to restore the old behavior ?

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@Weg

recently-used.xbel

❱ ls -l $HOME/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
-rw------- 1 687870 2025-04-19 23:29 /home/USERNAME/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
#backp
cp -v  /home/USERNAME/.local/share/recently-used.xbel{,original}

As you like it.

The entries are registered in the following file.
I think this will work.

Just to be sure, nemo and nautilus refer to the same file.
Make a backup and try deleting it,
registering a new one, deleting it, and testing it in various ways.

This will solve the problem, right?
If this is correct, congratulations.
Otherwise.

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I tried to rename the recently-used.xbel file in recently-used.xbel.save. Nothing happen. A new recently-used.xbel file is just recreated with same content. Is there something else I should try with this file ?

The content of the file is :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xbel version="1.0"
      xmlns:bookmark="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-bookmarks"
      xmlns:mime="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"
></xbel>