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Old 09-28-2022, 01:08 PM   #1
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Hello,

When I go to edit metadata for a new book, calibre prevents me from typing unless I click the field again. For each letter I type of a tag, if it matches any other tag it will stop my typing and push me to select one from the drop down menu unless I re-click the field and then again I can only type on letter. This only just recently started happening and I haven't made any changes recently so i'm not sure what has caused this to happen. I add new books frequently and this is quite an inconvenience.

If anyone has any advice on a fix or what may have caused this, it would be much appreciated.

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Old 09-28-2022, 01:27 PM   #2
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What OS?
What version Calibre?
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Old 09-28-2022, 05:05 PM   #3
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If anyone has any advice on a fix or what may have caused this, it would be much appreciated.
There are a couple of tweaks that can alter the behaviour of entering certain column types e.g. authors, tags, series etc:

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Old 09-28-2022, 09:45 PM   #4
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I had exactly this issue several updates ago using Ubuntu 20.04 - it was on going to Calibre 6.0. Starting Calibre in debug mode was a workaround for a few weeks. Then some update either to Ubuntu or Calibre fixed it.
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Old 09-29-2022, 08:54 PM   #5
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Im on pop os, which is an ubuntu based distribution and im running calibre version 6.5
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There are a couple of tweaks that can alter the behaviour of entering certain column types e.g. authors, tags, series etc:

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Just tried this. Thought the True val for the first option was my issue but unfortunately it was not the solution. Thank you for the suggestion though.
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Old 09-29-2022, 08:59 PM   #7
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I had exactly this issue several updates ago using Ubuntu 20.04 - it was on going to Calibre 6.0. Starting Calibre in debug mode was a workaround for a few weeks. Then some update either to Ubuntu or Calibre fixed it.
Debug mode does work to temporarily solve the problem. I was having this issue with calibre when i first got it and though that it was just the way the program was, then it went away. I guess this is an issue with some update somewhere like you said. Thank you for the help though, this workaround will do for the time being!
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Im on pop os, which is an ubuntu based distribution and im running calibre version 6.5
Switch to using X11 instead of Wayland and you will be fine.
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