On Sun 08 Feb 2026 at 12:41:21 (-0800), Van Snyder wrote: > On Sun, 2026-02-08 at 07:26 -0700, Antonio Russo wrote: > > On 2/7/26 6:08 PM, Van Snyder wrote: > > > > > > I meant "I never had reason to search for a single letter." > > > > > > It works for a while for a single letter, or short strings, and > > > even > > > sometimes for an entire word, but eventually gets lost. > > > > > > If the search item is on the same page as one previously found, it > > > still shows the correct page. Otherwise, I can frequently find the > > > search item within the next three or four pages, but usually not on > > > the > > > one displayed after the search. I give uip looking for it after > > > three > > > or four pages. > > > > To narrow things down, could you please try creating an entirely new > > user on your machine and try it on a known-broken PDF? This removes > > the possibility that some setting is causing the bug. > > The behavior is the same on two of my computers, one a desktop and the > other a laptop, both running Debian Trixie 13 with the same version of > Okular. > > > Does this problem also happen on pure text files? Or just PDFs? > > In text files, after searching the same file three or four times > through, it eventually finds the search term and puts it on the > displayed page on every search. But initially it displays pages that > don't contain the search ter. > > I tried both PDF and plain text with and without the "from current > page" and "as typing" options. They didn't change the behavior.
It's odd that okular appears to be singularly bad at searching. If you prefer using okular to other viewers, I can only suggest you run another viewer, almost any, in an adjacent window and do your searches there. The bug reports at bugs.kde.org seem to run into the sand, eg bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334068, and the one that your bug report was merged with, bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332271. Cheers, David.
