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Switched to ubuntu from windows a few days ago, I could open desktop folders as usual. But since tomorrow, when I double click a folder nothing happens, it doesn't opens. I can still open it through nautilus.

I found some similar problems on other posts and solution was that running nautilus-desktop could fix it.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1329590/1669217

But that command isn't there.

I get following errors:

gyan@gyan-Inspiron-15-3515:~$ nautilus-desktop
nautilus-desktop: command not found

I tried installing it but got another error:

gyan@gyan-Inspiron-15-3515:~$ sudo apt install nautilus-desktop
[sudo] password for gyan: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nautilus-desktop

running:

gyan@gyan-Inspiron-15-3515:~$ nautilus

opens the file manager as expected but I can't open folders from desktop.

Please help!.

Gyan Prakash
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Okay, I fixed it. I decided to take a look at /var/log/syslog and found that gnome is trying to use wsl to open it, so I removed the wslu package by

sudo apt purge wslu

This fixed the issue for me, hope it helps any future visitors.

Gyan Prakash
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