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Cannot use keyboard shortcuts to edit filenames

Asked by John MacMenigall

Following a fairly catastrophic drive failure I had to do a complete reinstall of Ubuntu (15.04, 64bit) onto a new hard drive. Nautilus used to, but now won't, allow cut & paste when editing filenames (ie Ctrl-c & Ctrl-x, Ctrl-v no longer work). By highlighting the filename (or part of ) I can retype without problems, but pressing Ctrl (without the c, x or v) results in the highlight disappearing & nothing is copied - and this also happens when using the 'Edit' dropdown. How do I restore the functionality?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Are other file managers ok?

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John MacMenigall (fred575) said : 		#2

Andrew
Thank you for your response, I'm about to download Midnight Commander & give that a try.

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John MacMenigall (fred575) said : 		#3

Now resolved - downloaded Midnight Commander & getting to grips with that (it looks like the old DOS program xTree which let you do things Windows users could only dream about!) but Nautilus now seems to be behaving itself after all . . .