Bug#1121791: gnome-text-editor: Compose key does not work when starting editor via Nautilus

[Ralf Jung]

Package: gnome-text-editor
Version: 49.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Some recent update seems to have broken the compose key. On my system, that is
configured to be caps-lock, and it works fine in every other application I use
(including other GNOME applications) -- except for the GNOME Text Editor. Even
there it used to work fine until maybe a few months ago, but then it got broken
by an update.

Very confusingly, I just realized that if I start the editor from my terminal or
via the gnome-session launcher, compose works fine! But when I double-click a
text file in Nautilus and that opens the editor, it does not work.

There's an upstream bugreport at
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/823> which however
got closed since apparently, it suffices to install ibus. ibus is installed
here, so there must be something else going on.

Kind regards,
Ralf

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

Kernel: Linux 6.17.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-text-editor depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.49.0-2
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.8.1-1
ii  libc6                                        2.41-12
ii  libeditorconfig0                             0.12.10+~0.17.1-3
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.86.2-1
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.20.3+ds-2
ii  libgtksourceview-5-0                         5.18.0-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.56.3-2
ii  libspelling-1-2                              0.4.9-1

gnome-text-editor recommends no packages.

gnome-text-editor suggests no packages.

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