I also have the same issue with nautilus in Ubuntu 16.10.
It affects only the list view, grid view works fine.
Also other file browsers like Thunar work fine in both list and grid view.
Additional notes:
- Pressing Ctrl seems to switch off the editing mode.
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I am also facing this behavior.
- List view
- Clicking a File or Folder
- Choosing Rename either from Menu or by pressing F2 makes no difference
- Typing exits the rename mode,and the search box on the down right pops up
containing the typed character
Additional observation:
-Trying to rename a
I made an observation regarding this issue: when switching to grid view
in nautilus, everything works fine. It's just the list view that shows
this behavior.
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I'm facing the exactly same behavior on Ubuntu 16.04 since a few days.
Reset as described by Alex N. didn't fix it.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574614
Title:
weird, upgrades don't touch user configs ... in any case closing, the
bug is not very useful without more details, feel free to reopen if you
figure out what settings was creating the issue
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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Sorry, no idea, i also had really weird bahiour with Firefox, so i
assume a lot of things were messed up after the upgrade from 15.10.
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thanks for the update, do you know what setting was creating the issue?
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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I just reset my Unity settings following this
http://askubuntu.com/questions/620947/how-do-i-reset-my-unity-
configuration-on-15-04 guide and the problem disappeared.
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Just saw this with a resized Nautilus window: When trying to rename, the
search box pops up in the bottom right corner containing the characters
i just typed, so it seems Nautlus is stuck in a directory/file "search
mode".
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