The 'use-experimental-views' option appears to have been the problem. I reset it, and the problem seems to have gone away.
I do not think I explicitly set that option, so I don't know how it got turned on. But this machine has been upgraded in place several times, so it may have been something that occurred years ago. No matter, it appears to be working correctly now, in several different directories & using several different zoom levels. I believe this bug report can be marked as 'resolved'. -- 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/1978486 Title: Right clicks on file icons select a different file Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Upgraded to 20.04 from 18.04. Right clicking on files in icon view will always select a different file. This does not happen in list (or detail) mode. Switching between the two modes several times will sometimes make the functionality work for a while in icon mode. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1.20.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-117.132-generic 5.4.189 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-117-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.24 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Jun 13 11:47:32 2022 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-11 (2894 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2022-06-07 (5 days ago) modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it # you can temporarily override this with # sudo service apport start force_start=1 enabled=0 mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2017-07-06T11:04:37.239623 usr_lib_nautilus: gnome-mplayer 1.0.9-3ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1978486/+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
