Funny, you can use a dbus-call, for example: dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.osso_filemanager /com/nokia/osso_filemanager com.nokia.osso_filemanager.open_folder string:/home/user/MyDocs/FCamera to open any folder, but you have to make sure, that the filemanager is already open. So, from commandline I can always open any folder under MyDocs, if I make two calls dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.osso_filemanager /com/nokia/osso_filemanager com.nokia.osso_filemanager.open_folder string:/home/user/MyDocs/ and then for example: dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.osso_filemanager /com/nokia/osso_filemanager com.nokia.osso_filemanager.open_folder string:/home/user/MyDocs/FCamera Can you try if this is working from maemostash as well, I mean: making two dbus-calls. nicolai