I generally liked `xfce4-appfined --collapsed` because it was so small. But Since I updated it opens a huge completion window that I never asked for. This completion windows starts being huge and then changes the size (width and height) contantly with every keystroke. This is a lot of visual noise that I don't like. I would like to turn off the completion window entirely, but I don't know how to do that. I have this problem since I upgraded today. https://i.imgur.com/iyeC5fT.png
I think this is an upstream bug, reported at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/2099. Meanwhile, you can work this around by removing long entries from ~/.cache/xfce4/xfce4-appfinder/history
I simply would like to have the old behavior back. No completion window.
(In reply to Arne from comment #2) > I simply would like to have the old behavior back. No completion window. Ok, I can introduce an option to disable the completion window, although xfce4-appfinder 4.12 already had this feature, so I'm not sure what you mean by "old behavior".
*** Bug 15853 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Andre Miranda referenced this bugreport in commit 2d6b4bd0bad9a5b1019857cf924d812f48f1adb4 Hidden option to disable entry completion (Bug #15827) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/commit?id=2d6b4bd0bad9a5b1019857cf924d812f48f1adb4
I agree the completion feature is noisy due gtk3's bug, for now a hidden option to disable it should be enough. You can activate that with: xfconf-query -c xfce4-appfinder -p /disable-completion -n -t bool -s true