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[Jeremy Brown <587856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a candidate patch in the upstream bug, and the GNOME/GTK+
developers seem slow to review and apply it.

Any chance this can be patched in Ubuntu specifically?  This is highly
visible and renders Ubuntu an unusable OS if you rely on remote
administering GTK+ apps that require drag-and-drop.

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Title:
  GNOME Drag & Drop broken for remote X sessions

Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  New
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Reproducible as follows:

  1. Clean install of Lucid LTS
  2. Apply latest updates (aptitude update && aptitude upgrade)
  3. Install tightvncserver
  4. Start a VNC session as a user (i.e. vncserver).
  5. Connect to the session using a VNC client.
  6. Create two folders on the GNOME desktop (e.g. "untitled folder" and "untitled folder 2")
  7. Attempt to click & drag one of the folders into the other - the operation will fail.

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