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Linux: Find/Replace Boxes Get Hidden by Remembered Items

In Windows, when entering characters into the Find or Replace boxes at the bottom of the editor, Calibre kindly opens a list of remembered possible matches (depending on what characters have been entered in the box) above the entry box. So, I can always see what I'm entering in the box as well as seeing possible previously entered things.

In Linux, Calibre tries to do the same thing. But, it puts that box of remembered possibilities on top of the entry box. So, once it gets enough information to start matching, I can no longer see what I'm entering. All I see are possible matches. Also, that now-hidden entry box still has the focus, so if I continue (blindly) typing or deleting characters, the list of possibilities changes to match those blind changes. If I can enter enough information to restrict the possible choices to some small number, then that box shrinks enough to once again see the entry box.

Could someone confirm this? I'm using Bazzite with KDE Plasma (which, I think, restricts things to just Wayland). I have no idea if this happens in other Linux distributions or even under X11.
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