Well, I managed to get the nautilus source code to compile and do some more testing. It is a bit hard to figure out the code when you're not familiar with it though, especially the way renaming in list view is implemented (the developers even call it a "HACK!!!!" in a comment in nautilus-view.c line 1758)
At first I thought that when pressing Escape while renaming, there might be missing a call to a cleanup method. But unfortunately it was not that simple. A call to cell_renderer_editing_canceled is done, which seems like it should put back nautilus in a normal state. I did find out that the pressing of Escape is not actually what triggers the problem directly. If you select a file and press F2, then press Escape (so without Ctrl-C), then press F2 again, that last F2 will also trigger the bug. After that you can stop editing using Enter, and Copy/Paste in nautilus wil still be broken. So pressing Ctrl-C while renaming the file is not even necessary to trigger the bug. Just like Francisco Franchetti says above, when the bug triggers I see: Gtk-WARNING **: Inserting action group 'ClipboardActions' into UI manager which already has a group with this name And when I try to paste a file after that: Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_clipboard: assertion 'gtk_widget_has_screen (widget)' failed Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_clipboard_request_text: assertion 'clipboard != NULL' failed So yeah, that's all I have for now. Maybe I can look further later. If someone has any tips on where to look and which lines of code to debug I'd be glad to hear it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882307 Title: [list-view] After copying text from a rename entry, file copy menus items are broken Status in Application menu module for GTK+: Incomplete Status in Nautilus: Expired Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “nautilus” source package in Precise: Incomplete Bug description: When renaming a file in nautilus, in list view, if you copy the highlighted part of the name, after this you're unable to copy/paste files This only occurs in list view Steps to reproduce: - Open Nautilus - Chose List View - Right click a file and chose Rename. Nautilus will highlight the file name. - Now Right click again on the highlighted part of the name and chose Copy. - Press Esc - Now try copying a file, you will be able to chose the option "Copy", but when you try to Paste, nothing happens. DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/appmenu-gtk/+bug/882307/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
