I can confirm this bug in 14.04 with a german keyboard. In my case it only effects gedit. The search field closes by pressing alt or alt gr therefore nothing can be entered in the search box based on those keys. The solution to copy paste is not practicable for me since I search many [... or @... strings. A solution could be to leave the searchbox open even when clicking on a menu entry (which is another thing that closes the searchbox, but I guess that was initially intended.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1301784 Title: cannot search text beginning with Alt(-gr) special character Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: background: gedit 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 ubuntu 12.04 1. Open text file with Gedit 2. Hit CTRL-F to search 3. try to give i.e. "@deco" with finnish keyboard where the character '@' comes from key combination AltGr + 2 expected: can enter text starting with special characters to search with into the search box result: search box closes when pressing Alt -> and typing the text that was intended for the search box ends up in the document itself. workaround: copy-paste the search string into search box To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1301784/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
