gedit on launch shows only an image of the desktop

[Sharad]

gedit opens, but all that is displayed in the app window is an image that is the content of the desktop behind the app's window. I am unable to open any files to edit them or type in the gedit window

Could this be a graphics driver or desktop issue?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gedit 3.28.1-1ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-72.80~18.04.1-generic 5.4.101
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 29 15:11:56 2021
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-bionic-amd64-20180608-47+matira-5-7-r+X58
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-09 (171 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180608-09:38
ProcEnviron:
 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)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, it sounds similar to bug #1760818 , could you check if xim is set for you?

[Sharad (cyclox)]

Yes, it does seem similar to #1760818.

.xinputrc has a line:

run_im xim

I will try commenting that out and then see if it fixes the problem

... that seemed to fix it, although I'm now getting a "Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" " message.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the canberra one is noise and shouldn't create any visible issue, could you confirm things work correctly now?

[Sharad (cyclox)]

So far all is working as expected. thank you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gedit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]