I asked this yesterday but deleted it shortly thereafter, thinking perhaps I was nuts since it was about 3 AM at the time; but, today, I got to a machine that wasn’t yet updated for the most recent round to confirm the old behavior. Stable branch. Previous behavior: If in vertical split view, when…

This seems to have been reported before; a regression? [image] Issues with Find Next in Kate (Split View) KDE Plasma Could anyone reproduce this weird behavior in Kate: Open two documents in a Split View Left Click at any word on the left Press CTRL+F Press…

[image] Gary1: New behavior: If repeat the above when cursor is in the left panel of the vertical split, the second time Ctrl+F the seearch menu closes and if Ctrl+F to open it, it opens but for the right-hand panel. That is, the focus moves from left panel to right panel from multiple Ctrl+F w…

@Gary1 From the kate menu, you can view all keyboard shortcuts at : Settings -> Configure Keyboard Shortcuts From here, you can even reset all shortcuts to restore the default behaviour.

Thanks. Yes, that is correct. There is one search bar but if you type something in it, then it toggles when each pane has the focus such that each pane can have its own search term(s). But if the left pane has the focus and the search menu is already open and I Ctrl+F then the search menu shows the …

[image] Gary1: I had two different Kate sessions open, one each on different desktop views, and one works normal and the other as described. I closed and re-opened it and now both are working normally. Perhaps, I’m hitting the wrong keys some where and changing the behavior? I think you’ve …

Maybe. Sure enough, the behavior is back to that weird changing the focus again; but I’ve no idea yet what I could possilbly be keying to cause that. Another odd thing I’ve noticed is that when saving or undoing or something in that area of keys via Ctrl, the character ß will appear in the text. I …

[image] Gary1: I’m writing in English and that looks like Greek Beta. I can create that character in my Belgian keyboard layout by pressing AltGrS. “ß” is the alternative spelling for a double “s” in the German language.

That must be it. It took me awhile to get it to work but I have to first press and release the key tha looks like a windows key and then AltGr andS twice quickly. Then I get the double “s”. But I can’t get that to change the Find behavior.

Not the exact same issue; for the first report has to do with selecting Next and the other appears to be about selecting files. If you have search terms in both menus (left and right panes) and set focus to the left pane and CtrlF the search menu shows the right pane’s search terms and the right pa…

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soundofthunder 10 September 2026 03:33 9

This seems to have been reported before;
a regression?

Also on KDE Discuss (recently):

I could guess that several reports I’ve noticed might have a common root cause. Probably it’s best to do a little more actionable research; and report to KDE directly: