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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by fho on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:14AM (#30799444)
> In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses

This does not seem to be the case, is it? I recently, accidentally hit Win+term+Enter into a Windows VM (intending it to hit the Linux host machine) and was surprised when a terminal popped up.

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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by adhesive_wombat on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:22AM (#30799481)
If it's some kind of timing/performance/hardware interface issue, it's quite possible different machines will act differently.
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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by Moru on Friday March 25, 2022 @04:20AM (#30799726)
It might also be working today but not tomorrow, then you accidentally start "Archies terminologies dictionary" as a websearch instead.
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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by adhesive_wombat on Friday March 25, 2022 @07:25AM (#30800779)
Just call it fuzzy search and now it's a feature.
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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by fho on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:47AM (#30818759)
This actually has happened to me on Gnome several times ;-)
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