GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 660807
File selection by typing is buggy sometimes
Last modified: 2011-10-26 18:52:13 UTC
this report has been filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/857710 "When I type in Nautilus to select files by name, often the wrong file is selected, as if my typing had been cut short or re-evaluated partway through. A screencast is attached." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/857710/+attachment/2449405/+files/screencast.ogv
there is a bug similar on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/872090 "On a Oneiric, open nautilus. Click in the file and folder area. Press backspace until you are in the root of the file system. Type 'et'. Notice that the search box disappears after typing the second letter (Not expected, a bug). Press enter to open the currently selected /etc. Type 'ud' and notice that no search comes up (this is a bug). Close nautilus and reopen. Type 'docu' to select documents, press backspace to delete 'u' and press enter. Notice the search works as expected. Press backspace to navigate up (this is working normal) Type 'Public'. Notice search still works as expected. Press enter. Press backspace until you are in the root of the filesystem."
I can confirm that typeahead works weirdly in 3.2, the text entry often closes itself and then refuses to come back until you refresh the view
The 'sometimes' part of this bug seems to be whether you are in your home folder or not. If you are in your home folder, everything works correctly (at least for me). If you are not in your home folder, it has the described problems. This is true even for the root user.
it's not really specific to the user dir or not, browsing to another directory and going back to the user directory it seems to happen there as well, it might be "initially open directory against browsed ones"
I posted a similar bug today : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/873678 I can confirm the above bug to be consistent with other users too.
I pushed a workaround for this in Nautilus, but I think this is actually a GTK bug, as I can reproduce the same issue with a reduced testcase: see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662036 Closing this bug anyway; the fix will be in Nautilus 3.2.1.
Thanks a lot Cosimo!
*** Bug 662065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 643114 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Unfortunately this bug is not solved for me yet on 3.2.1 (ubuntu release). While using type-ahead find, depending on which folder I am, I have two problems: - characters inside the type-ahead box don't get cleared when entering a dir, they accumulate. Even typing ESC won't do. - backspace press is not captured by the type-ahead box but from nautilus, causing backwards movement on the dir tree. Should I open a new bug?