This issue is very annoying. It seems it has something to do with ibus- daemon, as discussed in this Trisquel forum thread: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/typeahead-interactive-search-one-key- delay
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389200 Title: Type ahead discards first character Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Nautilus apparently clears the keyboard buffer sometimes, e.g. when moving to another directory. If the user is using type ahead rather rapidly, as power users do, the first character typed while a nautilus window is opened or while switching to a new folder is discarded. Steps to reproduce Type a few letters of a folder in the current directory, press <enter> then immediately continue type the name of a folder underneath. If the folder is opened for the first time in the session, and if the folder is larger, opening the folder will take a tiny bit of time. However, the first character the user was already typing may have been discarded. Expected behaviour: user keystroke should not be discarded but be used when nautilus is again ready to accept keyboard input. Description: Ubuntu 14.10 Release: 14.10 nautilus: Installed: 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu15 Candidate: 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu15 Version table: *** 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu15 0 500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1389200/+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
