I can confirm the behavior. When you mouse over the Dash button to click it, a tooltip saying "Dash Home" appears. However when you click on the button, the tooltip stays (as the mouse is still hovering it) which covers the first 4 characters of any search you want to make. I think the solution is to make the tooltips disappear on click.
I am running an updated Precise Pangolin beta, with compiz enabled and 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. I have no idea on how to find the unity version I'm using though but I guess it's the latest one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978030 Title: Dash search field is hidden by tooltips To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/978030/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs