If I want to open or save a file in an gtk3 app (eg firefox) I get an unwanted search function after tiping a character.
Old and productive behaviour: typing d gives me the first file beginning with d, typing de gives me the first file with de.
New and unwanted behaviour: typing d starts a search process and gives me /home/myuser/Downloads/somestuff/DETLEFF or some other file somewhere in the system.
Example:
How can I change back to the old and productive behaviour?
My system: archliux64, Gtk3: 3.18.6, windowmanager: fluxbox
Best Answer
The feature you are looking for is called "typeahead" and it is disabled in
GtkFileChooserDialog.gtk3-typeaheadfrom the AUR restores the previous behavior.The package author says disabling typeahead is hardcoded in GTK+ and in a bug report it was stated: "It's not a bug; the removal of the type-ahead search was very much intentional."
Note there is now some (partially broken) tab-completion in the name/address field mimicking the behavior of the shell.