can't empty trash cut paste or move files from Desktop

[Nunya Fukkin Bizness]

Ubuntu 20.04 I can't empty trash, cut, paste, or mile files from graphical desktop only in file manager

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gdm3 3.36.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-51.58~20.04.1-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-51-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.24
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jun 21 08:21:39 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-06-03 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Nunya Fukkin Bizness (nunyafukkinbizness)]

I can't empty trash, cut, paste, or mile files from graphical desktop only in file manager

[Nunya Fukkin Bizness (nunyafukkinbizness)]

I have read the designers of Ubuntu have done this on purpose. They think it is a feature. I consider it a bug!

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Those sound like multiple separate issues.

* Emptying the trash on the desktop in 20.04 seems to work for me so I'm not sure what you mean is failing there.

* Cut and paste is tracked in bug 1948008. It is already fixed in Ubuntu 22.04 and later but is unlikely to ever be implemented in the old extension for 20.04 because that extension is effectively retired upstream. So it will only get basic fixes and not features. Please use 22.04 instead if you can.

* Not sure what you mean by "mile files".

Please pick a single issue for this bug to be about and always log separate bugs for separate issues.

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