After F10 menu Enter key opens file instead of menu action

Bug #1968792 reported by Sebastian Benvenuti
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Unknown
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

When pressing F10 on Nautilus, the menu pops. Then the arrow keys navigate the menu, but when pressing Enter, does not execute the selected menu action.
IE: if folder is selected, press F10, menu pops down arrow to choose "open in terminal", press enter, Nautilus navigates to the selected folder instead of opening terminal in the current location.
Also with files: if text (or any) file is selected, press F10, menu pops, choose any action with arrows, press enter, gedit (or whatever) opens selected file.

Tested all actions then selecting files or folders, same result.

Expected behavior: After pressing F10, focus should be on the menu that just pops up, until ESC is pressed or mouse clicks somewhere else or focus is shifted by other means, so when pressing ENTER action gets performed.
IE: file or folder is selected, press F10, down arrow to select PROPERTIES, press ENTER, PROPERTIES of selected item are shown.

Also tried with SPACEBAR (just in case), but the result is the same.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: nautilus 1:42.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-25.25-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu80
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckMismatches: ./preseed/ubuntu.seed ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-470/nvidia-kernel-source-470_470.103.01-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-510/libnvidia-gl-510_510.60.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-510/nvidia-compute-utils-510_510.60.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-510/nvidia-driver-495_510.60.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-510/nvidia-driver-510_510.60.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-510/nvidia-kernel-common-510_510.60.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-510/nvidia-kernel-source-510_510.60.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-510/nvidia-utils-510_510.60.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-510/xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-510_510.60.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
CasperMD5CheckResult: fail
CasperVersion: 1.468
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 12 23:08:24 2022
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:

LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Daily amd64 (20220409)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus:
 evince 42.1-2
 file-roller 3.42.0-1
 nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 3.44.0-1ubuntu1
 nautilus-share 0.7.3-2ubuntu6

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Sebastian Benvenuti (sebastianbenvenuti) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote :
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Sebastian Benvenuti (sebastianbenvenuti) wrote :

Same thing on Nautilus 42.1 running on Manjaro Testing. So must be upstream.

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
no longer affects: nautilus (Ubuntu Jammy)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes) wrote (last edit ):

This bug is similar to the bug (but not duplicated):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/2023939

"When has selected files, the selected menus don't activate by the keyboard..."

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Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes) wrote (last edit ):
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "848.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

tags: added: patch
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the upstream reference. I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please perform as much as possible of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes) wrote (last edit ):

I've removed the patch. It did not work. This bug must be reopened.

tags: removed: patch
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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