drag and drop between desktop and nautilus doesn't work

Bug #1741777 reported by J-Paul BERARD
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

I open a nautilus window and try to drag a file from the desktop to this window. It's not done and the arrow pointer of the mouse become a close hand and you cannot use it anymore to click anywhere.
Session Wayland

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-21.24-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jan 7 19:19:23 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-30 (617 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-23 (76 days ago)

Revision history for this message
J-Paul BERARD (arverne) wrote :
J-Paul BERARD (arverne)
description: updated
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: wayland
removed: wayland-session
Revision history for this message
Pete (lance321) wrote :

I confirm I have this exact problem. Using latest build of Ubuntu 17.10 (Wayland)from Jan 2018.

Note: This bug also seems very similar to this one.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1729887

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Pete (lance321) wrote :

Looks like this may be the same issue as this bug still not resolved.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1704765

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