Linux: Find/Replace Boxes Get Hidden by Remembered Items

[enuddleyarbl]

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.

[gbm]

You need to tell it to Wayland.

X11 works. Wayland not so much, Wayland is still hit or miss.

Mint give a choice of x11 or Wayland--which Mint still considers as experimental.

screen shots x11;


Wayland:

bernie

Originally Posted by enuddleyarbl

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.

[JSWolf]

Why do some insist on using Wayland when it doesn't work well?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why do some insist on using Wayland when it doesn't work well?

Because some distributions are now defaulting to Wayland? On my last 3 Linux VMs, Wayland was defaulted on 2 of them.

[enuddleyarbl]

As near as I can tell, even though KDE Plasma still comes in both Wayland and X11 varieties, the Bazzite folks appear to have chosen the pure Wayland flavor. At least I can't find any way to change to X11.

So, from @gbm 's post, it looks like this is definitely a Wayland issue.

[kovidgoyal]

You can run a Qt based program like calibre in X11 even under wayland using QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb env var.