Nautilus "Enter Location" Stops Working

[Vindicator]

Earlier, I had been able to use CTRL-L for "Enter Location" and it worked. At some point I had pressed ESC to revert back to the button-based paths.

Later on, with that same window open, I came back and tried CTRL-L and the path didn't switch back to the textbox.
Even going to "Go"->"Enter Location" did nothing.

While writing this up, I did a test by closing that window, then opening a new "Files" window and CTRL-L worked right off the bat.
This wasn't my first experience with that "bug", but enough times for me to finally submit it when it happened.

Hopefully the data submitted will provide the information needed to find the cause.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-20.20+test-generic 3.19.8
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 4 23:41:00 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name', 'size', 'date_modified', 'mime_type']"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-04 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Macro Zhu (zhu-macro)]

I have Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 64 bit and Nautilus 3.10.1. I experience the same problem repeatedly. All other shortcut keys work, Ctrl+h, Ctrl+f, etc. Just Ctrl+l stops working after a while. The Go -> Enter Location menu entry also stops working. Restarting Nautilus always solves the problem.

[Gregory Kramida (algomorph)]

This problem usually arises when you have two Nautilus windows open, and one is already in "location" mode, i.e. the address bar shows the text of the path, call it window #2. If you minimize this window #2, activate window #1, and hit "Ctrl+L", nothing happens. The worst part is that even if you close the window #2, where you had it working, it will still not work for window #1. If you then open window #3 and minimize it, hit "Ctrl+L" in window #1, it will be applied to window #3 (!).

It is obviously a usability bug that has to do with incorrect code design for handling "Ctrl+L" in multiple windows.

This problem affects all versions of Ubuntu using nautilus up to and including 15.10, and will probably continue to affect 16.04 until something is done about it.

@Vindicator, if what I described above is not what you are experiencing, please let me know and I'll try to file a separate bug report.

[Vindicator (vindicator)]

@algomorph, I have since moved away from Ubuntu in January to Archlinux with KDE.

[Gregory Kramida (algomorph)]

This problem goes away in Nautilus 3.14.3 that comes with Ubuntu 16.04 and also doesn't occur in Nemo 3.0.0 + (which is available for prior versions of Ubuntu). I think this bug report should probably be closed.

[Gregory Kramida (algomorph)]

Issue fixed in Nautilus 3.14.3 and beyond.