The problem is that nautilus tries to open a file name '~' in the current working directory. This can be reproduced in the shell by running
nautilus '~' I can see these options to solve this bug: 1. Call bash when executing commands. This implies that any bash substitution variable would occur. For instance, pressing Alt+F2 and typing "nautilus $HOME" would open the home directory. 2. Substitute the tilde character with the home directory. I find this dangerous, since we could make a wrong assumption of what the user wanted. We could think of ways to restrict tilde substitution, for instance, only substitute tilde when: 1) tilde is the first character; 2) the file should exist on system. I would like to hear more opinions! Ian L. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/734762 Title: Dash: Alt-F2 "nautilus ~/" errors to "Could not find '/~'" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
