Files won't open from nautilus (error dispatching to Wayland display)

[Franck]

When using Nautilus, clicking on files or hitting "enter" won't open the file. Instead, nautilus window closes.
This happens whatever the file type is, and whatever application is to be used to view the file.

When launched from a shell, nautilus prints the error message:

Gdk-Message: 09:25:04.445: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 11 09:20:10 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-22 (47 days ago)
usr_lib_nautilus:

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is going to be fixed in 3.28, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/63