Gnome Nautilus 17.10 Drag-and-Drop – Fix Drag and Drop Not Working Inside Nautilus on Ubuntu 17.10

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I'm having a strange problem on Ubuntu 17.10: when I try to drag and drop something inside Nautilus it simply doesn't work, it doesn't even select the item, it seems like it's ignoring the action…
Also, I cannot select things inside nautilus by drawing rectangles with the mouse.

All of these actions work only on the Desktop. Here is a demo:

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I'm using the Xorg session with nVidia proprietary drivers.
I also noticed that Nautilus seems to hang when I try to copy, paste or cut a file…

EDIT 1: I solved the problem for the slow copy/paste by disabling the clipboard sync plugin of KDEConnect.
I also discovered that if I open Nautilus as root, I can drag and drop or select whatever I want…

Best Answer

As Matteo pointed out himself this happens if the Nautilus Flowbox View is enabled. To disable it open a terminal and execute the following:

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences use-experimental-views false

Of course you can use the dconf-Editor as well and follow the path above to toggle the setting.

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