I haven't knowingly changed anything recently but my original installation was 15.04 and I've upgraded progressively so may have set something in the past. I didn't have the problem with 18.04 though. I've tried with a different user and the problem doesn't appear to be present so it looks like it could be a setting for my user. Give me a clue where to look and I'm happy to try things out. I've tried eliminating the contents of .config/nautilus but no joy.
-- 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/1875326 Title: Can't double click items in icon view Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu: 20.04LTS Nautilus: 1:3.36.1.1-1ubuntu2 Double clicking an item in Nautilus should open the item but this doesn't happen in all cases because the display is scrolled. When items are displayed in icon view (as opposed to list view) and there are more items than can be displayed in the window, clicking an item can cause the display to scroll so that the item is no longer under the cursor and so double-clicking is impossible. This only seems to happen if the display has been scrolled down somewhat and clicking the item then causes it to be scrolled to the bottom of the window. In list view the item can be double-clicked without a problem so this is a workaround. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.36.1.1-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Apr 27 10:44:48 2020 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-19 (1590 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021) ProcEnviron: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SHELL=/bin/bash LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-25 (1 days ago) usr_lib_nautilus: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1875326/+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