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
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gedit doesn't properly import the clipboard
https://launchpad.net/bugs/90629
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