copy dialog gone ninja

[anatoly techtonik]

This is almost the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1399077 - during long copy I closed all other nautilus windows, except the copy dialog. Now I can't switch back to it. Icon shows that there is some progress, alt-tab shows an icon, but alt-tabbing doesn't work. Clicking on panel just bring up nautilus with Home folder, Show Copy Dialog does nothing.

wmctrl does nothing.

$ wmctrl -l
0x026266a5 0 PCO File Operations
0x0260000a 0 PCO Desktop
...
$ wmctrl -R "File Operations" -v
envir_utf8: 1
Using window: 0x026266a5

There were several mistakes during copy, so my bet is that the progress dialog is blocked by some other window.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-62.102-generic 3.13.11-ckt24
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-62-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Aug 19 21:00:25 2015
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'group', 'where', 'mime_type', 'owner', 'permissions']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-12 (1255 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-18 (487 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Monster Danau (monster-danau)]

Same on 15.10

[Rodrigo Lledó (rodhos-hp)]

As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS, I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there.

Workaround: Scrolling with the mouse over the launcher icon shows the copy dialog.

[Oedner (alexander-glaenzer)]

@Rodrigo
I'm on a fresh 15.10 installation and your workaround doesn't work for me (copying about 1tb from one ntfs hdd to another), neither does alt + tab / alt + ~, rightclick on natilus icon + show copy dialog

i still got the little progress bar on the task bar icon though. better than nothing i guess

[karthikkn (karthikkn)]

Happens in 16.04.

[Konstantin (ivankin)]

Present in 15.10.
Tried Alt+Tab/~, Right-click > Show dialog, Scrolling.
Totally agree it's great it still does copy.

[Otto Piscus (voytekl)]

Still present in 16.04.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Please mark yourself as affected if you have this bug in Xenial in the duplicate bug #1399077.