I’m several months into my Linux journey and this is one thing that is driving me absolutely crazy because it legit just works on Windows and OS X.

  1. I hit the start button

  2. I type “note”

  3. I hit enter.

If I give it a full second between steps 2 and 3, Notesnook opens as intended.

But if I hit enter at a normal speed, a game (Necesse) launches.

This is presumably because it’s executing the command before the search finishes.

Can I change this behavior? I use AutoCAD for a living so typing a command and hitting enter really fast is a habit I won’t be able to break.

  • d3vnu1l@programming.dev
    5·
    10 days ago

    Are you using KDE? I’ve recently switched to KDE to try it out after using gnome for nearly two decades and have come across this annoyance.

    It searches the first letter then waits for a pause in typing before searching again which has slowed down my workflow significantly.

    This seems to be the bug report regarding the issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455239

    • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      10 days ago

      Yes, sorry! I forgot there’s two Fedoras.

      The list should be updated before the [application] execution happens

      This is how I expected it to function. I was really hoping it’d be fixed when I upgraded from 43.

      I guess my temporary solution could be to change the shortcut for Notesnook to just “N” lol

  • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    Odd, I don’t run into this myself. Does krunner (the dialog that pops up when you hit alt+space) also have the same behavior?

    • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      It does, the link in the other reply is describing the problem exactly but for krunner