According to the upstream comment this is a bug in GTK4/X11 and not Nautilus itself, which was addressed but not fully fixed in 4.7.2.
A subsequent fix has been proposed for upstream GTK4: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4982 The workaround is to press "Shift" while doing the drag and drop to the Trash. -- 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/1987411 Title: Drag and drop to Trash in sidebar not supported Status in Nautilus: Unknown Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Couldn't find any mention in the upstream issues (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=5.%20Drag- and-Drop) or whether this functionality is still WIP (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/2267), but drag and drop of files in Nautilus 43.beta.1 to its sidebar Trash gives the following error: Error while copying "[filename]". There was an error copying the file into trash:///. Operation not supported. The same error occurs if a file is right-click selected for copy and then going onto the Trash space and right-click for paste. ii gir1.2-nautilus-4.0:amd64 1:43~beta.1-2ubuntu1 amd64 libraries for nautilus components - gir bindings ii libnautilus-extension4:amd64 1:43~beta.1-2ubuntu1 amd64 libraries for nautilus components - runtime version ii nautilus 1:43~beta.1-2ubuntu1 amd64 file manager and graphical shell for GNOME ii nautilus-data 1:43~beta.1-2ubuntu1 all data files for nautilus PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu Kinetic Kudu (development branch)" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION_ID="22.10" VERSION="22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)" VERSION_CODENAME=kinetic Windowing System: X11 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1987411/+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