Ctrl+C doesn't copy selected text in Dash search field

Also not work:
- Select all (Ctrl+A) - bug #737717
- Paste (Ctrl+V) - bug #747292

The currently active bug about Ctrl-X is bug #737731. Ctrl-A is fixed.

Moreover, Ctrl-(anything other than A) inserts a special character (00xx in a square as rendered by default font). Ctrl-I inserts what looks like a tab, Ctrl-H seems to insert nothing (but the search starts), Ctrl-M inserts something like a space.

So...does anyone have any idea when this will be fixed? This is a pretty significant usability bug for Unity, as you can no longer paste commands to run from instructions on the Internet, or copy and paste a file name to, say, edit text file by running "gedit /home/username/x/whatever/file.conf". Anything too complicated to easily type by hand now has to be run in a terminal, or done via slower GUI methods (launch Nautilus, navigate to the file, right-click, open with..., scroll through list, select application, click on ok...vs copy, paste, enter...man, people who insist on using a GUI for everything must really enjoy manual labor!) What with this being Unity's big debut and all hype/controversy surrounding it, I'm surprised a flaw as glaring and annoying as this wasn't fixed before Natty's release...

My original bug report was that it shows random non-printable characters when you hit Ctrl-Anything in the box. It looks bad...

Yes, but many bugs about Copy&Paste actions was marked as duplicates of this bug. So it is better to fix all issues before close this bug, imho.

Month later... This is really annoying for people who need F2

still not fixed, and oneiric is not too far away...

this is a very serious bug, please (at least) assigning it a medium/high priority

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.12.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.12.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - P3: [natty] Cannot click on indicators (LP: #819202)
    - Icons not visible in the launcher or alt-tab switcher (LP: #833905)
    - [dash] Search field in Unity can not support iBus (LP: #663776)
    - [dash] preferred applications are not stored in GConf anylonger
      (LP: #805063)
    - SysTray icons have a white square background in Unity. (LP: #823407)
    - new dash does not fit a normal netbook screen (LP: #825370)
    - Dash picks random weird colors (yellow, green), fonts invisible (with
      blur en- or disabled) (LP: #828363)
    - Music Lens doesn't display items until you search (LP: #824892)
    - Dash - Adjustments to stateful behaviour (LP: #838667)
    - Dragging from dash to launcher still doesn't work (LP: #824833)
    - Click on 'More Apps' et al closes the dash (LP: #824842)
    - cannot paste into dash (particularly relevant for alt+f2) (LP: #736222)
    - Ctrl X doesn't cut selected text in Dash search field (LP: #737731)
    - Ctrl+C doesn't copy selected text in Dash search field (LP: #737732)
    - The indicators shows a big white square when systray whitelisted
      (LP: #822672)
    - ARM FTBFS fix (LP: #834576)
  * debian/control:
    - build on latest nux
  * debian/rules:
    - bump shlibs
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:33:06 +0200