Open a path with Desktop.open() from java on ubuntu (linux)

Question

From my application written in java I want to open a folder, using the operating system file explorer.

I use Desktop.open(new File(path))

This works fine on wind

Answer 1

I was running into the same issue and decided to give Java 7 a whirl. I'm running java version "1.7.0_147-icedtea" on Ubuntu 11.10_x64 and am able to open file locations in Nautilus quite happily now.