Ctrl + drag does not select multiple files or groups of files

[David Vilela]

Ctrl + drag does not select multiple files or groups of files. It just acts as if crtl key was not pressed, moving files around.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.3
Package: elementary-desktop 1.351+395~ubuntu0.3.1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-43.72-generic 3.13.11.11
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-43-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
CurrentDesktop: Pantheon
Date: Wed Dec 17 13:07:22 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-09 (98 days ago)
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.3 "Freya" - Daily amd64 (20140810)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

In Files, Ctrl + drag should select multiple groups of files (rubber-banding) provided it is not initiated on an icon.

In Icon View rubberbanding is initiated on whitespace

In List View and Column View it is initiated on the name field.

 If you initiate Ctrl + drag on an icon then it should drag that file (and any other co-selected files).

Please confirm whether or not you are getting this behaviour

[morris aurich (nuklijam)]

When I try to Ctrl + drag it just tries to drag & drop a (non-existent) file, even if nothing is selected.
It's neither working in Icon view when starting to drag on whitespace nor in list view on the name field.

It works in Icon view without using Ctrl but then I cant add files to a selection.

[David Vilela (david-vilela)]

Yes, I confirm the behaviour depicted by nuklijam.

[mgarridosan (mgarridosan)]

Unable to select multiple files, overall weird behaviour and mouse icon changes to half an image and two arrows, left and right. Multiple file icons selection using keyboard does not work right either.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

mgarridosan: The problem with the mouse icon (cursor) is probably related to bug 1390625 which is not a Files bug.
Could you be more specific about "overall weird behaviour"?

nuklijam: I am now sometimes getting file drag starting on white space instead of rubberbanding - but not consistently. I'll look into into.