Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete

[Matt Kowske]

To add another data point -- this problem goes away when I login with
Unity on Ubuntu 16.04. I entered transactions for 10 mins without the
bug popping up. I switch over to KDE and it always fails on the first
transaction I try to enter.

At least I know how I can get my work done now, but of course it is
confusing why this only happens in KDE for me (yet others see it in
different desktop environments and even different OSes) and why it
appeared out of nowhere.

On 02/22/2017 04:51 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> You’re not alone.
>
> I’ve been seeing similar behavior since switching to Mac. I’ve never seen this on Unity. (I was using 12.04 at the time)
>
> I thought at first it was clumsy fingers, but since I had no issues on Linux I wasn’t convinced.
>
> Unfortunately, I can’t reliably cause the bug to repeat, so I gave up consideration of reporting it.
>
> I just hit one or two letters now and scroll through my accounts to find what I want.
>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 9:54 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
>>
>> From: jmk <jmk at cmail.nu <mailto:jmk at cmail.nu>>
>> Subject: Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete
>> Date: February 22, 2017 at 8:06:52 AM CST
>> To: GnuCash-User List <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had a very strange behavior surface today while I was entering
>> transactions. I use the keyboard autocomplete feature to quickly
>> categorize things (e.g. I type "ex:fo:di" to autofill to
>> "Expenses:Food:Dining"). Well for some reason this has become really
>> erratic. Sometimes it will work as it always has for years, but
>> sometimes the highlighted text in the input box will become unselected
>> and place my cursor at the end and everything I type after that is
>> translated literally and not used to match a category. In the above
>> example I might end up with something like "Expenses:Fo:Diood" --
>> GnuCash decided to unselect the text right after I typed the 'o' and
>> left the autofill text at the end. It's very weird and hard to explain.
>>
>> I haven't had any input problems in any other applications.
>>
>> I GC 2.6.12 on Unbuntu 16.04 running KDE Plasma 5.8.5.
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