Desktop Mouse Right Click -> COPY/PASTE Reuslt NOTHING

[Itai]

Hi,
I know the Gnome Shell extension "Desktop Icons" cause much irrational behavior under Ubuntu 20.04.

But, coping some file on the ubuntu's desktop (right click -> copy) and then paste in any other folder used to work perfectly so far.

I've noticed that since yesterday, this feature isn't functional anymore.

I can copy via right click easily, but when it comes to paste the file/folder, the paste option is unavailable (grayed out).

Desktop permissions: drwxrwxrwx

I know https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/focal/+bug/1852183 bug and I think my ubuntu's strange behavior deserve a new bug.

Itai

------------ Machine Info ---------------------------------------------

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Linux laptop-5468 5.11.0-40-generic #44~20.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 26 18:07:44 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
GNOME Version 3.36.8
X11

gnome:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.30+2
  Version table:
     1:3.30+2 500
        500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages

gnome-session:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
     3.36.0-2ubuntu1 500
        500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages

gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
  Candidate: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 500
        500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
     3.36.1-5ubuntu1 500
        500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Bin Li (binli)]

I just check the old version of gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons, I still could reproduce this issue, so it's not regression update in 20.04.0-3~0ubuntu20.04.6 at least. I will check the update history and code to find the root cause.

gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons:
 Installed: 20.04.0-3~0ubuntu20.04.4
 Candidate: 20.04.0-3~0ubuntu20.04.6
gnome-session-bin: 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
gnome-shell: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

If it's pre-existing (or intermittent) then we should probably group it with bug 1948008.

[Bin Li (binli)]

@Itai,
 Could you help check which is the good version of gnome-shell and gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons? From the last time it worked, and check the /var/log/apt/history.log

 I met an issue of drag and drop a file one year ago, I thought it should be the same root cause, the mutter didn't support this kind of operation.

 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1557#note_873314

[Bin Li (binli)]

@daniel,

 Yes, it should be same issue with lp:1948008, thanks!

[Itai (itai590)]

@Bin Li
I clear the log file from time to time, so 'grep gnome' command result nothing for me.

Anyway, I believe as mentioned in the link you sent that this is the version of the gnome-shell:
gnome-shell 3.36.3-1ubuntu1~20.04.2

For the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons I'm not sure but now I have
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons 20.04.0-3~ubuntu20.04.6
Is there anyway of downgrading this?