I can confirm this and have reported it upstream. It turns out to be a bug in the treeview of the Nautilus sidebar.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #601725 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601725 ** Changed in: nautilus Importance: Undecided => Unknown ** Changed in: nautilus Status: New => Unknown ** Changed in: nautilus Remote watch: None => GNOME Bug Tracker #601725 ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Summary changed: - Right-click in tree view does not highlight selected folder + Right-click in sidebar tree view does not highlight selected folder -- Right-click in sidebar tree view does not highlight selected folder https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429046 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs