Bug#886955: gedit: gedit does not share clipboard with other applications, such as google chrome, gnome terminal

[Dongliang Mu]

Package: gedit
Version: 3.22.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

As the title shows, gedit does not share clipboard with other applications.
When I copy some text from gedit with "Ctrl+C" or right click of mouse, and
paste it to gnome terminal or google chrome, the text does not show up in the
application.



-- Package-specific info:
Active plugins:
  - 'docinfo'
  -  'spell'
  -  'filebrowser'
  -  'modelines'
  -  'time'

No plugin installed in $HOME.

Module versions:
  - glib                  2.54.2
  - gtk+                  3.22.26
  - gtksourceview         
  - pygobject             
  - enchant               
  - iso-codes             3.77


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gedit-common               3.22.1-2
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0            1.54.1-4
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0             3.22.26-2
ii  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0       3.24.6-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0           1.40.14-1
ii  gir1.2-peas-1.0            1.22.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.24.1-2
ii  iso-codes                  3.77-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.26.1-2
ii  libc6                      2.25-5
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.15.8-3
ii  libcairo2                  1.15.8-3
ii  libenchant1c2a             1.6.0-11.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.36.11-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1      1.54.1-4
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.54.2-5
ii  libgspell-1-1              1.6.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.22.26-2
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1     3.24.6-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.40.14-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.40.14-1
ii  libpeas-1.0-0              1.22.0-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxml2                    2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1
ii  python3                    3.6.4-1
ii  python3-gi                 3.26.1-2
ii  python3-gi-cairo           3.26.1-2
ii  python3.6                  3.6.4-3

Versions of packages gedit recommends:
ii  yelp    3.26.0-2
ii  zenity  3.26.0-2

Versions of packages gedit suggests:
ii  gedit-plugins  3.22.0-4

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