In the past day or so I've tripped over a rather annoying bug in Caja, the file manager for the MATE desktop (which I use with Linux Mint, and which is also used by many Ubuntu users). Theoretically, the F2 key is a shortcut for Edit > Rename..., which lets you rename selected files. Usually, it works fine, but today (and at least once in the recent past) the F2 key had no effect.
At first I thought there was a problem with my keyboard, but no, the F2 key was being recognized. A Google search led me to a bug report from 2018 (!) where a diligent soul with screen name "terzag" discovered that the problem occurred when the Caja window displayed a vertical scrollbar and disappeared when the window was resized large enough to lose the scrollbar. Sure enough, that fix worked for me today ... and then things got weirder.
I did a little experimenting, and the bug reappeared when the scrollbar reappeared and disappeared whenever the scrollbar disappeared. Then I tried F2 with multiple file icons selected (which opens a dialog to bulk rename them), and it worked, despite there being a visible scrollbar. Since then, no matter how many times I close and reopen Caja, the bug does not manifest. So it is temporarily fixed, I guess, with emphasis on "temporarily".
I also encountered a possibly related bug, again reported years ago. If I hit either F2 or Edit > Rename... without first selecting one or more files, it closes (crashes?) all open Caja windows. I'm pretty sure that's a bug and not a "feature".
Hopefully this all gets fixed relatively soon ... although looking at bug reports from almost five years ago does not make me feel sanguine about the prospects.
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