GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 752829
In type-sorted icon view in a particular folder, Nautilus goes nuts with the file ordering when changing the selection
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:32:00 UTC
I have a folder in particular where Nautilus exhibits erratic behavior; selecting/deselecting a file with the mouse (ex: with a rectangle selection) causes the sorting of some other files to change, and moving around with the arrow keys (such as up/down) is impossible because it shifts everytime and jumps to seeming random places in the iconview.
This is really hard to explain/imagine without a screencast, so here goes: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/public/nautilus-752829.webm
In 3.18 this is harder to reproduce, but still happens in some cases. For instance, I was able to trigger some similar behavior by alt-tabbing between Nautilus and xchat: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/public/nautilus-752829-with-3.18-alt-tab.webm
Never seen this or know what can cause that, weird indeed. What sorting type are you using?
In both videos I was using sorting by "type". In the 1st video I was using the "normal" (middle) icon sizes, in the 2nd video it was with small icon sizes and the dark Adwaita theme variant. The sizing of the window does not matter (surprisingly). I tried to reproduce the issue just now, and couldn't get it to happen at first, then kept trying with new window instances or new tabs and it started happening again. The only thing that I've seen consistently related to this is my folder path: /home/jeff/Documents/serious business/idéemarque When it happens, it's noticeably always in this folder...
(In reply to Jean-François Fortin Tam from comment #4) > In both videos I was using sorting by "type". In the 1st video I was using > the "normal" (middle) icon sizes, in the 2nd video it was with small icon > sizes and the dark Adwaita theme variant. > > The sizing of the window does not matter (surprisingly). I tried to > reproduce the issue just now, and couldn't get it to happen at first, then > kept trying with new window instances or new tabs and it started happening > again. > > The only thing that I've seen consistently related to this is my folder path: > > /home/jeff/Documents/serious business/idéemarque > > When it happens, it's noticeably always in this folder... I cannot think of anything else rather than some other program modifying the attributes the files are ordered of. Can you check whether in list view it doesn't happen?
Yeah, I never saw it happening in listview, only iconview. I don't know what "other program" could be modifying those files, I don't have gthumb or anything else running related to that folder. This happens even if thumbnails are turned off ("icons only" iconview). Usually when testing it with the alt-tab trick, it stops happening after 3-4 alt-tabs... until you create a new Nautilus window in that folder to try again "fresh".
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