Same issue on my Ubuntu 17.10 beta, freshly installed (no upgrade). Just for completeness, this behaviour happens by just dragging a file from desktop to any other window of nautilus (no shift key necessary).
Dragging from nautilus to desktop works. Dragging from nautilus to another nautilus windows works. Cut/Paste from/to desktop works. It's the dragging action from desktop that looks flawed. If useful, here is a screen recording that shows the issue (well, the initial mouse drag and subsequent click attempts are not clearly visible but I think that one can get the idea of the problem): https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjzqucqb7hdcnvy/Screencast_drag_issue_ubuntu-17-10-beta.mp4?dl=0 -- 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/1716277 Title: Moving a file to another folder, holding shift key, blocks mouse pointer Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When I try to move a file that's on the Desktop to another folder holding the shift after having clicked on it and started dragging it to the destination folder, the mouse pointer from an arrow becomes a hand and after this you are unable to click on other files or folders, even in Firefox you are unable to open another tab by clicking on the plus near the other tabs. To reproduce the bug: Open Files. Click on a file on the Desktop. Start dragging it to another folder in Files and while dragging press the shift key. The mouse arrow becomes a hand. Try to click on another file, you won't be able to. Open Firefox and try to open another tab, you won't be able to. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.25.92-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-13.14-generic 4.12.10 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Sep 10 21:56:09 2017 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus-desktop GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'343' b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1394x615+36+32'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true' b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-01 (101 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170525) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_nautilus: dropbox 2015.10.28 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1716277/+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
