Auto-type fails in gnome-terminal

[macho]

Auto-type works across most applications (browsers, email clients, etc.) but fails specifically in gnome-terminal.

When I invoke auto-type with focus in gnome-terminal, KeePass pops up a modal window whose title is "KeePass" reading: "For global auto-type, the 'xdotool' utility/package is required (version 2.20100818.3004 or higher!)."

$ dpkg -l keepass2 xdotool
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii keepass2 2.36+dfsg-1 all Password manager
ii xdotool 1:3.20160805 amd64 simulate (generate) X11 keyboard/

I recently updated to Ubuntu 17.10. I'm fairly confident that I never got this error in 17.04, but I may will simply never have tried auto-type in gnome-terminal, at least recently.