If I open a Nautilus window via terminal using sudo or gksudo command, client side decorations seem to be disabled and I get the “old style” windows decorations:

Can someone retrace this behavior? Since I happen to dislike the new CDS, I’d really like to get title bars everytime I open Nautilus.

I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Gnome 3.10 installed from the official repo.

1 Answer

Use this command to change the desktop environment:

sudo env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=UNITY nautilus

To make it permanent, just copy the file with:

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

for copying /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/

Then run gksudo nautilus where gksudo because you run GUI app.
Or,

cd ~/.local/share/applications/ && gksudo nautilus .

where dot will point nautilus to directory. Or even:

gksudo nautilus ~/.local/share/applications/nautilus.desktop

And change the lines:

Exec=nautilus --new-window

To:

Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=UNITY nautilus --new-window

Save file and enjoy your Unity.