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

Package:
gnome-text-editor
Source:
gnome-text-editor
Description:
simple text editor for GNOME
Submitter:
Ralf Jung
Date:
2025-12-03 23:05:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1121791#5
Date:
2025-12-02 21:09:01 UTC
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To:
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
#1121791#10
Date:
2025-12-02 21:14:09 UTC
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To:
the "about" window just says "Files"...

; Ralf
#1121791#15
Date:
2025-12-03 22:48:39 UTC
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To:
This is an upstream issue after all, now tracked at
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/840>.

; Ralf