Thank you for your bug. That's not specific to gedit, you can try with any GTK application it does the same, it's doing the same as ctrl-V. To copy the selected text you want to use the middle click mouse action
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- gedit doesn't properly import the clipboard https://launchpad.net/bugs/90629 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs