Using nautilus as a file manager in xfce

I decided to use nautilus as file manager in XFCE because I'm having some issues with thunar (slow mounting of removable drives etc.). I've assigned a keyboard shortcut to launch this command "nautilus --browser --no-desktop". The first time I run it everything works as intended, but when I press the keyboard shorcut second time 5 nautilus windows open and nautilus replaces thunar on the desktop (switches to the background used in gnome, raplaces the xfce right click menu with the gnome one, etc.). I am truly confused with this. Anyone has any idea what could be casing this behaviour?

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Last edited by Cdh (2011-01-19 09:36:41)

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