Middle click paste not working in terminal launched from context menu

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

On a clean up to date Artful system I noticed some odd behavior in the terminal.

Steps to reproduce:-

1. Open a terminal by right clicking the desktop and Open Terminal.
2. Double click the command prompt
3. Middle click to paste

Expected behavior

Contents of terminal appears pasted

Actual behavior

Nothing

Oddly, terminals launched from the activities menu or by pressing CTRL+ALT+T don't exhibit this behavior. In addition, sometimes it works if you copy from a terminal launched in the two mentioned ways, and try to paste into the one launched from the desktop.

https://youtu.be/aKfb9DCfPUI

Video showing me launching a terminal from the activities menu where middle click paste works. Launching a terminal from the desktop context menu and middle click paste not working. Then launching gedit where also I can't paste what I have highlighted in the terminal, but can copy from gedit to terminal via middle click paste.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.24.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 2 23:08:44 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170712)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Out of curiosity: What happens if you try to paste with Shift+Insert rather than middle click?

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Nothing happens when I double click text then use Shift+Insert.

Also, using Shift+Ctrl+C and Shift+Ctrl+V don't work in a terminal opened this way either.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I can reproduce this defect only under wayland.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Related to bug 1722121.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

I'm marking it as anachronistic duplicate because investigating happened in the other bugreport.