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So, I was dragging some files around in Nautilus and I wanted to cancel a drag. So, I just hit escape.

Then I got this weird file icon floating always on top on my screen that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of. Logging out and back in fixed it, but I'd rather not have to do that as I have this problem come up quite a bit.

I tried killing and restarting Nautilus (kilall nautilus), but that didn't fix it.

Here is a screenshot of the little visual artifact.

File artifact from drag and drop

Does anyone know a way to get rid of this by killing a process or something minor that? I'd rather not have to close everything and log out every time.

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  • Have you tried killing Nautilus with killall nautilus command? Just opening a new file browser window will start it again.
    – Nattgew
    Oct 16, 2014 at 18:19
  • Yes. The artifact is not from Nautilus. I think it's part of the GNOME desktop. I don't know how to restart my desktop without logging out and back in. I'll edit that into my question.
    – Robin
    Oct 16, 2014 at 18:52
  • You can try restarting either Unity or Gnome Shell, whichever you are using.
    – Nattgew
    Oct 16, 2014 at 19:15
  • @Nattgew : How can I do that without logging out and killing all my other programs running?
    – Robin
    Oct 16, 2014 at 21:55
  • I know the Gnome command only restarts the shell, all the programs stay open. Not sure about Unity.
    – Nattgew
    Oct 16, 2014 at 22:01

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