I couldn't find any other bug or post elsewhere speaking about it... When there is a selection done (ie: some file or directories selected), if you select some text from the location bar with the mouse, or even with keys (Ctrl-L + shift-arrows) and copy it (Ctrl-C), the selected files list will be copied in the clipboard, but not the text you lastly selected!! The only tricks I found to get it done are: - either to do it fully by the mouse: right_clic the location text selection and select "copy" - either deselect your files selection by clicking in between files' icons (not possible in detailled list view btw), and then going Ctrl-L + select + Ctrl-C.
The user cannot copy and paste text from the location bar after selecting a file. I agree that this issue should be resolved. It is an important for a professional window manager that is designed to be used on Linux (i.e.; in conjunction with terminal windows, users who wish to generate documentation, etc)
Still reproducible on Thunar 1.6.3, using Ubuntu Studio 14.10. 1. Open a folder 2. Select a file 3. Press CTRL+L to select the text in the address bar 4. Press CTRL+C to copy Expected behavior The current path would be copied. Actual behavior The path of the file is copied.
Bug 7298 seems to be a duplicate of this.
Resolving duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4537 ***
The solution is to switch to Caja; in https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7298, devs wrote they won't fix it.