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sultanoswing

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Registered: 2008-07-23

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Gnome 3.16 & Wayland: double-click no worky and no desktop icons/menu

I understand Wayland and Gnome are getting closer to "finished", and indeed my laptop's touchpad (HP Folio 13) now detects taps as primary mouse clicks, which is a marked improvement over 3.14, where taps weren't detected at all. Couple of issues stop it being "daily use" for me at present however:

1) Despite "Test your settings" correctly showing "double-click primary button", the double-click isn't working as it should in Nautilus/Files i.e. double clicking or double tapping on a folder icon fails to open said folder. Interestingly double-click to drag *does* work, so I'm suspecting a Nautilus problem. NB double click with a proper mouse also doesn't work, so it's not a trackpad problem per se.

2) Second problem is that my desktop icons (Home and a couple of folders) aren't showing up, despite using gnome-tweak-tool to set the desktop icons "On". And when I right-click on the gnome-wayland desktop the context menu only shows "Change Desktop Background" and "Settings...".

Both of these probems aren't present on Gnome under X.

Last edited by sultanoswing (2015-05-20 19:58:33)

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vinadoros

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Registered: 2014-03-12

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Re: Gnome 3.16 & Wayland: double-click no worky and no desktop icons/menu

I can confirm both of these on my own Gnome 3.16 desktop as well. The no desktop icons I believe is a known thing with Gnome on Wayland (it doesn't exist, just like restarting Gnome Shell with Alt+F2 and r does not exist under Wayland either). The first issue I have never seen anywhere, and it does not seem limited to touchpads (hook up a mouse and you will see the same thing). Anyone experienced the lack of double click for folders in Nautilus/Files under Wayland? Any solutions?

nbur

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Registered: 2015-04-22

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Re: Gnome 3.16 & Wayland: double-click no worky and no desktop icons/menu

I just pacman -Syu'd about an hour ago. I noticed my desktop icons were missing and I couldn't get Files to open properly until I turned off Icons on Desktop in gnome-tweak-tool (Files would appear to open, then quickly close and disappear).

After turning off Icons on Desktop, Everything seems to be behaving normally, including double-clicking (mouse). It would sure be nice to get those desktop icons back though.

lardon

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 264

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Re: Gnome 3.16 & Wayland: double-click no worky and no desktop icons/menu

I'm having the same problem. Disabling the "icons on desktop" setting didn't do it for me. Did anyone file a bug?

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dsreyes1014

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Registered: 2014-06-28

Posts: 56

Re: Gnome 3.16 & Wayland: double-click no worky and no desktop icons/menu

I'm also having issues with double-clicking files and folders in Nautilus in Wayland.  I have to press 'Enter' on the keyboard for them.

lardon

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Registered: 2008-05-31

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Re: Gnome 3.16 & Wayland: double-click no worky and no desktop icons/menu

A bug has been reported upstream, apparently: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214264

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