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

[Ralf Jung]

Correction: I am not using Nautilus, I am using whatever the gnome file manager 
is. No idea if that's still the same program as what used to be called Nautilus, 
the "about" window just says "Files"...


; Ralf

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
 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  libc62.41-12
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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