I cannot change the name of a file/directory on the desktop through right click on the icon. The name becomes selected, but I cannot type in it. This has also happened in the past with some versions of Ubuntu. Is this a bug, or am I not doing it correctly?
Ubuntu – Cannot change file name on desktop
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With newer versions of Nautilus (2.31.5 and later) renaming .desktop files actually changes the filename, not the Name field of the file itself.
Nautilus will show the full filename (with the .desktop extension), if the .desktop file is not executable.
For example,
if Firefox.desktop is executable:
Now to see the actual filename, make Firefox.desktop un-executable. Right click -> Properties -> Permissions -> Uncheck Allow executing file as a program.
Now Nautilus will show the full file name:
There seems to be a bug with renaming un-executable
.desktopfiles in Nautilus.
If you don't erase the.desktopextension, the file will
have a double-extension (i.eFirefox.desktop.desktop).
There is a nice tool that may be handy for globally changing the icon for a specific file type.
Install it by executing: sudo apt-get install assogiate.
After installing you can run the tool (assogiate), seek for the file type, double click on it and change the default icon.
New icon should the be applied to all files of the specific mime type.
Screenshot:
Best Answer
To change the name on Ubuntu (unlike OS X) you need to right-click and then choose 'rename'. If you then cannot type to change the name, that's a bug. As a workaround you could try then left-clicking on the name to see if that puts focus in the right place.
It could be that you're hitting the problem described in gnome bug 646900, which is fixed upstream and should be fixed in Ubuntu in a bit. That bug reports suggests some workarounds.
If that doesn't sound like your bug, I suggest you report it by running in the Terminal: