nautilus malfunctions when using "ctrl-c" to copy a file name with show location of mouse pointer turned on

[erqiang]

Binary package hint: nautilus
(system Ubuntu 11.04, Nautilus 2.32.2.1)

Select a file in nautilus, press F2, then the file name is automatically selected, press "ctrl-c" to copy the selected file name (not the whole path of file)

Case 1: open gedit or leafpad what so ever, press "ctrl-v" to paste, the result is the whole path of the selected file, but I just expect the selected file name.

Case 2: now select another file and press F2 (the second file name is now selected), then press "ctrl-v", nothing happened, but I expect the copied file name can be pasted here; after that press Esc or enter to cancel the selection of second file name, then nautilus gives another copy of the first file, but I never intend to copy the file itself.
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Tags: natty running-unity
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (45 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare video

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thank you for your bug report. The behaviour you describe is odd -- I'm seeing exactly the behaviour you would like to have on Ubuntu 11.04 (only the filename and not the path is copied, I can copy the filename over another filename). Could you please run
  apport-collect 783382
in a terminal? This will add information about your configuration to this report, maybe you have some special configuration. Thanks!

[Marble23 (john-mardala)]

I am also experiencing this behavior.
Gnome 2.32.0
2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:00:26 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 11.04

I originally saw this after upgrading to 11.04 from 10.10. I can't remember the exact date, but the issue was resolved a month or two back then showed up again recently.

[erqiang (zhou-erqiang)]

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[erqiang (zhou-erqiang)]

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[erqiang (zhou-erqiang)]

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[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thanks for the additional information -- unfortunately I still can't reproduce the issue and don't see any obvious differences in your configuration... Do you see the problem in all views (list view, compact view, etc.)? It works for me in all views (list view is a bit special because it does select the whole file name instead of the name without extension).

[erqiang (zhou-erqiang)]

Thanks Marcel. I got how to reproduce the problem. The problem is caused by assistive technologies.
Assistive technologies perference ---> Mouse accessibility ---> General ----> Locate Pointer ---> tick the option of "show position of pointer when the control key is pressed"

The problem is gone if the option is de-selected.
Thanks for your help.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

As erqiang has reported in his last comment, this can be reproduced by having the "show position of pointer when the control key is pressed" option selected, and it does not reproduce without. I am setting this to confirmed, and reassigning to gnome-control-center, as that is the component handling the mouse preferences.
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