I am also experiencing this bug. It should be noted that it does not happen in Fedora 29 (it is mentioned here by a F29 user : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1572 and I have also checked it myself) so it seems to be Ubuntu specific.
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