Erratic behavior of drag'n drop and file selection in Nautilus

I’ve had trouble with handling files in Nautilus for a long time, at least since Leap 15.4. I am not sure when I first I noticed it.

  • More often than not, drag’n drop doesn’t work at all. I can drag a file icon from one folder over another, but nothing happens, releasing the mouse button has no effect (and no, the target folder is not write-protected, copy/paste works into the same folder).
  • File selection is flakey, too. Sometimes I am unable to deselect all files, which normally works by just clicking into an empty area, or by ctrl-clicking an already selected file. If I try this, random things happen. Most of the time, some random other file(s) get selected.

I don’t see this behavior on my TW system, only Leap. Has anyone else observed this?

About to close soon … I conclude that I’m the only person this behavior. Weird.

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