Skip to content

Searchlight becomes unresponsive when holding accelerator/search key #146

@Piratebird

Description

@Piratebird

Information/Environment:

- Distro: Fedora 43
- GNOME shell: 49.2
- Search Light version: 42
- Session: Wayland
- Issue type: Bug / UI freeze

Description:

When holding the accelerator/search key (instead of tapping it), the search light UI appears but becomes non-interactive.

The search bar stays stuck as a block in the middle of the screen, doesn't accept input, and can't be dismissed.
The only way to recover is to disable and re-enable the extension.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Enable the Search Light extension
  2. Press and hold the accelerator/search key (not a quick tap)
  3. Release the key after the UI appears

Expected Behavior:

  • Search light remains interactive
  • keyboard input works normally
  • UI can be dismissed (ESC/Clicking anywhere)

Actual Behavior:

  • UI becomes unresponsive
  • No input is accepted
  • UI can't close

Frequency:

  • Occurs every time when the key is held

Visual demonstration

Image

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions