Some times to close and open the nautilus window again works. For me it worked in most of the cases.
No, thats a problem with the new nautilus version. I think that there is no way to fix that since nautilus no longer allows having no names.
If you want to use the background like in the picture you could try:
nautilus > edit > Preferences > text at a side of the icons (I am not sure how it is written in english)
I could also implement an option to have a dot for the name...
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