Selecting items while dragging mouse looses selection when right clicking on them

[Luis Alvarado]

The problem can be reproduce faster if you open Nautilus and select several files or folders with the intention of copying them, then immediately after selecting them, right click for the context menu to appear. When the context menu appears, you will loose the selected objects. This only happens the first time.

How it should behave is for me to drag and select any files/folders and if I do right click on them, the selected items should stay selected. After the problem I have to do it again for them to be selected correctly, with this I mean, I have to select them again and then right click for them to stay selected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 7.0.0daily13.04.18~13.04-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-22.33-generic 3.8.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 319.17 Thu Apr 25 22:45:49 PDT 2013
 GCC version: gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1)
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Fri May 17 10:40:49 2013
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: raring
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GF114 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti] [10de:1200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:2227]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-28 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-22-generic root=UUID=1fcf3513-f7b6-4c1c-94c7-033a920ad6ee ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: DBZ6810H.86A.0043.2012.0615.2054
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: DZ68DB
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAG27985-104
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrDBZ6810H.86A.0043.2012.0615.2054:bd06/15/2012:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDZ68DB:rvrAAG27985-104:cvn:ct3:cvr:
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.04.18.1~13.04-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.45+git20130516.acfbf394-0ubuntu0sarvatt~raring
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2.0~git20130516.435aea6f-0ubuntu0sarvatt2~raring
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2.0~git20130516.435aea6f-0ubuntu0sarvatt2~raring
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.4~git20130508+server-1.13-branch.10c42f57-0ubuntu0ricotz~raring
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2b2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.99+git20130315.3e5350be-0ubuntu0sarvatt
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.6+git20130514.3ee42de0-0ubuntu0sarvatt~raring
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.7+git20130516.bf72ae1f-0ubuntu0sarvatt~raring
xserver.bootTime: Thu May 16 22:52:53 2013
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors: open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:

xserver.version: 2:1.13.4~git20130508+server-1.13-branch.10c42f57-0ubuntu0ricotz~raring

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Lu Timdale (lutimdale)]

I have tried adjusting the double click speed. This does not help. Extra clicks are added before I let go of the mouse button fully. It seems the mouseup event is firing prior to hearing the click on the mouse. This means that if I keep it semi-depressed, I get many clicks.

Frustrating.

[Alex Baggott (alex-baggott)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu, please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.

[[e-mail] (nutsy-ben-t)]

This bug is also happening to 2016.
I got this bug on previous versions of Ubuntu. Don't remember the fix at this time.
reinstalled a new Ubuntu version and get this problem again.

ABSOLUTELY annoying but when I remember the fix .. I ll post back.