Search not working in KDE

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If you have multiple kickoff applets (start menu) or other applets which have the search function, your issue might be related to this:

[Stable Update] 2021-11-19 - Kernels, Gnome 41.1, Plasma 5.23.3, Frameworks 5.88, LxQt 1.0, Xorg-Server 21.1, Mesa

Here an Issue which should be added to the “Known issues and solutions” list. Issue: No search results in application launcher when using multiple kickoff instances. Solution 1: Manually Downgrading the Kickoff Applet until the Bug is fixed Upstream. Solution 2: Only have one Kickoff Applet, by removing the other ones. Upstream KDE Bug: 443131 – When there's more than one Kickoff, clicking on the old one causes search to be broken until you search with the new one (Basically they completly …

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Upstream KDE Bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443131