Drag-and-drop from Nautilus causes Mutter to close Wayland connections

[Martin]

When dragging a file from Nautilus to another window (either another Nautilus window or a GNOME Terminal window), and you hold down the alt key while dropping, Mutter closes the connection to the target application (which GDK handles by calling `_exit(1)` unconditionally).

When the target application is a GNOME Terminal window, the entire GNOME Terminal Server exits, so all terminal windows close. This is likely to lead to data loss (I have personally experienced having many very important terminal windows with neovim just close because I dared to drag and drop a file into another terminal window instead of typing out the path).

I made an issue upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1789, but I thought it should be in Launchpad as well.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: mutter 3.38.4-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 5 22:12:37 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-21 (530 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-03-16 (50 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sounds like bug 1911036 but you already have the fix for that. :(

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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