Typing a filename in a nautilus window, and the letters are not in the order I typed them.

Bug #2008532 reported by Rob Frohne
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ibus
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

On my Lenovo Yoga 260 I have this annoying problem. At first I thought it was just my typing, but after carefully testing it, I find it is not my typing. You need to type the characters fairly quickly, but often when you do, they come on the search bar in a different order than you typed them. For example, I have a directory called LaserTag and so when I want to find it among all the others in my directory, I open the nautilus window and start typing Laser, but what is printed in the search bar is Lsaer. This may happen in some other programs. I am not sure about that, but it is at least most apparent in nautilus, and reproducible. For example, I did the test twice and got Lsaer twice just now.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: nautilus 1:43.0-1ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-31.32-generic 5.19.17
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Feb 24 15:26:45 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-04-19 (1407 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190326.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-10-25 (122 days ago)
usr_lib_nautilus:
 file-roller 43.0-1
 nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 3.46.2-1ubuntu1
 python3-nautilus 4.0-1

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Rob Frohne (frohro) wrote :
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Rob Frohne (frohro) wrote :

I should comment as well, that I have several different computers running Ubuntu 22.10 like this one, but this is the one that I am sure has this problem. If the problem exists on the others it is very much less frequent. I should also mention that I use a Dvorak key layout, which may make me type faster than some, but I have run tests where I was typing slowly, but not slowly enough to wait for each letter to appear before typing the next one, and I still get this problem. If I let each letter appear before typing the next, all is well.

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Rob Frohne (frohro) wrote :

..., but waiting for each letter to appear is painful. :-)

Rob

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Could someone report the issue upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues ?

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote :

This is not strictly a Nautilus bug, it's way bigger than that, it potentially affects all GTK4 applications when the system is under stress. I was told it's an ibus bug rather than GTK, so I filed it here, and I would really appreciate it if your team can help investigate or fix it: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2486

affects: nautilus → ibus
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