nautilus does not open a new window when opening a folder in a browser

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Is there a way to make it open a new window instead of a focused window?

Hi there, I am not aware of any way around this, it’s nautilus way of preventing too many open windows. What is the issue with focusing an open window?

FWIW, nautilus has the following option to open URI in new window.

-w, --new-window  Always open a new window for browsing specified URIs

But web browsers don’t directly call nautilus, but the default file manager (which can also be thunar / nemo etc) set in the system. But, it shouldn’t be difficult to achieve what you’re trying to do.

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