Allegedly, on or about 1 August 2018, Gianluca Cecchi sent: I'm annoyed by the same thing, it's a bad design. The right-click menu is context sensitive, so will only offer options applicable to what's under the cursor, or already selected. In this case, it'll be a menu for working with one of the existing files or folders in that window. Putting it simply, most of the so-called file managers on Linux are really not in the class of being a file "manager." They're just file browsers with a few features. Unless you use another file browser/manager, you've got two choices: 1. Use keyboard shortcuts, and inconveniently swap between keyboard and mouse. 2. Laboriously go into the edit menu (at the top of the window, presuming you're not using a desktop manager that has removed the feature), and pick PASTE from the EDIT menu. It'd be nice if you could simply add CUT, COPY and PASTE icons into the file browser's toolbar, to quickly do those *very* common functions. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. This email tagline has been Australianised. Bloody oath...

On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 09:06 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: It's like that by design and has been that way for a while now. It's obvious why, too: they believe people using that application are using the icon view exclusively and is the reason why the "paste" will always work in that view. The current nautilus design for the list view is, in my opinion, broken. Why? If I can't paste in list view when the list is full, it's broken. I guess no one has bothered opening a bug entry for this (I certainly haven't). -- Ranbir <m3freak(a)thesandhufamily.ca&gt;