How Do I Enable Drag and Drop in Ubuntu?
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Left-click on the file, hold it, press the keys alt and press as many times the key tab to navigate to the window you want to drag the file to (while still holding the left-click), release alt when the right application window is chosen and drag the file to the desired place to drop.

How do I enable drag and drop in VirtualBox Ubuntu?

Using VirtualBox Guest Addition features

You can enable drag and drop from the top menu -> Devices ->Drag and Drop -> Bidirectional. With Bidirectional, you can drag and drop from guest to host and from host to guest, both.

How do I activate drag and drop?

When drag and drop doesn’t work, left click a file in Windows Explorer or File Explorer, and keep the left click mouse button pressed. While the left click button is held down, press the Escape key on your keyboard, once. Release the left click mouse button. Try to drag and drop again.

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