I do not know whether this is a missing function in Nemo or that my install is busted somehow, but I cannot select any file by dragging with my mouse. Normally while holding down the left button of a mouse while dragging a selection box should appear which you can use to select a/multiple file/files. The selection box DOES appear on my desktop but is does NOT appear in Nemo. If my question is not clear I am referring to the blue selection box in the figure below:
The problem is not theme-related because I have tried a bunch.
My system is running on Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64 bit, with backports from Mint 14 enabled (through which I acquired Nemo). Currently installed Nemo version is 1.1.2. Feel free to ask me any system settings questions.
Cannot drag-select with a mouse in Nemo
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Cannot drag-select with a mouse in Nemo
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Re: Cannot drag-select with a mouse in Nemo
I re-installed Nautilus to check whether it is a Nemo problem. The problem also exists for Nautilus. However I have found out that it works both in Nautilus and Nemo under certain conditions: folder view has to be set to either Icons or Compact. The problems thus only occurs for the List folder view option.
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Re: Cannot drag-select with a mouse in Nemo
I have exactly same problem, then on list view i can not do drag-select, but on other types of view it works fine. I use Linux Mint 14 x86, Cinnamon 1.8.8, Nemo 1.8.3.
Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon x64 EFI. AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, 16Gb RAM, GeForce GTX 1650.