Gedit doesn't Gain Focus Upon Opening a File in Nautilus

Bug #1723403 reported by Lonnie Lee Best
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GTK+
New
Undecided
Unassigned
gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

If you already have one tab open in gedit, and then minimize gedit, if you double click on another file in nautilus, gedit should regain focus, but it does not.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gedit 3.22.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-15.16-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 13 06:26:01 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171012)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, that's a known gtk/wayland issue, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766284

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
affects: gedit (Ubuntu) → gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
Changed in gtk:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in gtk:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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Ads20000 (ads20000) wrote :
Changed in gtk:
importance: Medium → Undecided
status: Expired → New
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Martin Měřinský (mermar) wrote :

Still present in 18.04.

tags: added: bionic
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Ales Kvapil (aleskva) wrote :

It happens also on Xorg to me

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