Thread: Troubleshooting Kindle Oasis Search problem
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Old 04-08-2020, 11:24 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by DomenicoSputo View Post
NO malfunction then? Is it like this for all? I find it very frustrating if I need to search and all the time the window closes down :-/
It's an old bug: it's been around since at least 5.8 on Oasis 1 as well. It's probably a window manager bug: the wm uses the window titles to raise things to the right positions, and if it's instantiated with the wrong title, you'll see exactly this behaviour.

It's really annoying, breaks one of the fundamental benefits of e-readers (easy searching), really easy to reproduce, only goes away reliably on a reboot, and that Amazon hasn't bothered to fix it in so many years is a condemnation of their software development practices. Is a change to the effing font menu really more important than this?!
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