Right clicks on file icons select a different file

[Michael Orr]

Upgraded to 20.04 from 18.04. Right clicking on files in icon view will always select a different file. This does not happen in list (or detail) mode. Switching between the two modes several times will sometimes make the functionality work for a while in icon mode.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-117.132-generic 5.4.189
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-117-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.24
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jun 13 11:47:32 2022
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-11 (2894 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2022-06-07 (5 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
 # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
 # you can temporarily override this with
 # sudo service apport start force_start=1
 enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2017-07-06T11:04:37.239623
usr_lib_nautilus: gnome-mplayer 1.0.9-3ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you do a video showing the issue? Do you use xorg or wayland?

[Michael Orr (morr-rva)]

I use xorg. I have attached a movie of this behavior.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

THanks, weird bug. Does changing the zoom level makes a difference? Do you only get the issue with files that display a preview?

According to the report
b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'use-experimental-views' b'true'

does that make a difference?
$ gsettings reset org.gnome.nautilus.preferences use-experimental-views

[Michael Orr (morr-rva)]

The 'use-experimental-views' option appears to have been the problem. I reset it, and the problem seems to have gone away.

I do not think I explicitly set that option, so I don't know how it got turned on. But this machine has been upgraded in place several times, so it may have been something that occurred years ago. No matter, it appears to be working correctly now, in several different directories & using several different zoom levels.

I believe this bug report can be marked as 'resolved'.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks, unsure how that got set, I don't think this option default was never set to true in Ubuntu but perhaps some configuration UI changed it? In any case closing the report now