Loading circle next to Activities when clicking on a file already open in Text Editor

[Ads20000]

When clicking on a file on the desktop with Text Editor already open (but minimized), a loading circle for the Text editor appears next to Activities and doesn't disappear for a while (despite the file having been open in the background). Probably related to bug 1737184.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gedit 3.22.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-19.22-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Dec 8 14:49:44 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-03 (126 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-21 (47 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you take a screenshot showing the issue?

[Ads20000 (ads20000)]

Amended the description, the loading circle does disappear after varying lengths of time...

[Ads20000 (ads20000)]

I imagine this will be fixed when bug 1737184 is fixed and that the loading circle is there because the window isn't coming up.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sounds like a consequence/duplicate of bug 1723403.