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Installed 20.04 on 4/23 and can't drag and drop. I've had this issue with previous LTS installs and fixed it by toggling "experimental views" on/off through gsettings. That's not working this time.

user1072562
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  • Welcome to AskUbuntu! Drag from where and drop to where? Have you verified that you have write permission to the drop location? – Elder Geek Apr 25 '20 at 20:08
  • From anywhere to anywhere. Example: Documents Folder > Desktop, and vice versa. – user1072562 Apr 25 '20 at 20:37
  • Also, yes, I have read/write permissions for those locations. – user1072562 Apr 25 '20 at 20:38
  • That might be it, yes. Thanks. Although having to replace Nautilus with Nemo seems pretty suboptimal as a long-term solution. If it's currently just a shortcoming of Nautilus, is it likely to be fixed in the future? – user1072562 Apr 27 '20 at 04:58
  • Unfortunately, it doesn't seems so. Note that it's not a bug with Nautilus, Nautilus is completely relieved from handling desktop icons as a conscious decision (reasons listed here). It's unlikely that the developers would reverse the decision. We can only hope for the GNOME extension that handles desktop icons now to gain the feature in future. – pomsky Apr 27 '20 at 11:13
  • Thanks. I guess I'll just wait and "move to" rather than dragging to the desktop. – user1072562 May 01 '20 at 02:26
  • It is astonishing that things goes backward and it is surprising that Canonical goes to hit new users with a such basic missing intuitive function. Common people will hang on this and after a brief test of Ubuntu will abandon it in many cases. – Robert Oct 28 '20 at 15:06

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