From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: If I open up two nautilus windows and in one I select several files and choose "edit" | "copy files" and then select the other nautilus window and select "edit" | "paste files" I cannot select it because it is greyed out. if I select all the files and then drag them from one window to the other the copy works. from then on using the copy and paste file menus between the two windows work. From then on the behavior is continues to be inconsistent. I've noticed this behavior in nautilus for a while now(redhat 7.3, 8.0). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Nautilus-2.2.1-5 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. open up two nautilus windows and in one select several files 2. choose "edit" | "copy files" from the menu bar 3. select the other nautilus window 4. select "edit" | "paste files" you cannot select it because it is greyed out. Actual Results: I cannot paste the files. if I select all the files and then drag them from one window to the other the copy works. from then on using the copy and paste file menus between the two windows work. If I close the windows and open new ones and try again, the behavior is continues to be inconsistent. Expected Results: the files should copy Additional info:
Yes. This is due to a fundamental feature missing from X. You can't know when the selection changes. This was fixed with the XFIXES extension, but that didn't go into XFree86 4.3.0 unfortunately, so we'll have to wait a while for this to get fixed. As a workaround, click on a file in the window you want to paste in. That should make the paste menu item un-grey.
*** Bug 90620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 106036 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is working pretty well in gnome 2.8, so i'm closing it. For out-of-process clipboard owner changes we need xfixes though. But thats for 2.10.