[SOLVED] Input not registering when trying to search in man

folix · 2026-01-30 00:18:50

This is my first time posting so bear with me.

When entering a man page of a command and trying to search for a pattern with any of the means for searching ( /, ?, &) my input doesnt register. The only way for the input to register is to type the pattern letter by letter by pressing <CTRL-V> and a letter.

The pager im using is less but i have tried with bat but its the same.

Also im using fcitx5 for multilingual input ( english and greek ) and when i switch to greek my input is registered normally. Exiting fcitx5 changes nothing.

In addition i have run "stty sane", suggested by gemini, but this also changes nothing.

I dont know what other information may be useful.

Any help will appreciated

Thanks

Last edited by folix (2026-01-30 14:14:59)

IFailALot · 2026-01-30 04:29:16

Are you aware of special characters?

https://www.threesl.com/blog/special-ch … ns-escape/

seth · 2026-01-30 08:04:49

Also im using fcitx5 for multilingual input ( english and greek ) and when i switch to greek my input is registered normally. Exiting fcitx5 changes nothing.

What is your terminal emulator and how and when is it started?
Also what display server is this? Xorg or some (which!) wayland compositor?
Does the input of "/" work when pretending that the keyboard is in the other layout (though afaiu greek would be just augmenting regular qwerty w/ the slash left of the right shift?) and how do you "switch" the layouts?

folix · 2026-01-30 11:56:39

(ignore this)

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folix · 2026-01-30 11:57:22

seth wrote:

Also im using fcitx5 for multilingual input ( english and greek ) and when i switch to greek my input is registered normally. Exiting fcitx5 changes nothing.
What is your terminal emulator and how and when is it started?
Also what display server is this? Xorg or some (which!) wayland compositor?
Does the input of "/" work when pretending that the keyboard is in the other layout (though afaiu greek would be just augmenting regular qwerty w/ the slash left of the right shift?) and how do you "switch" the layouts?

It started 2 hours before my original question's upload date.

I found that when opening a file will less, the same problem occurs.

I cant really understand how the problem started in the first place. I was just opening the man page for pacman like any other time.

terminal emulator: kitty

Compositor: Hyprland (Wayland)

The input of "/" works when switching to greek, but it of course doesnt find any matches. For the switching i have a keybind (Super+Space) or by tapping on the tray icon which appears after opening fcitx5.

I also tried switching to greek with my keybind, and then switching back to english from the tray icon ( thinking that maybe the keybind is at fault ) but nothing.

seth · 2026-01-30 12:36:28

Do you configure the alternative layouts w/ sth. like https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Unco … rd-layouts ?
Why do you use fcitx5 itfp?
Is kitty an https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waylan … plications client?

"When" was less meant in relation to a wall clock and more in relation to whether you're starting kitty (or a kitty daemon) w/ hyprland, before or after switching any keyboard layouts etc.

folix · 2026-01-30 13:08:21

seth wrote:

Do you configure the alternative layouts w/ sth. like https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Unco … rd-layouts ?
Why do you use fcitx5 itfp?
Is kitty an https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waylan … plications client?
"When" was less meant in relation to a wall clock and more in relation to whether you're starting kitty (or a kitty daemon) w/ hyprland, before or after switching any keyboard layouts etc.

I didnt change the configuration of the alternative layouts, fcitx5 is working perfectily fine for the last 2-3 months im using it ( and the problem didnt appear for those 2-3 months ), and i've been using kitty since i first installed arch with hyprland.

I checked an kitty is not a xwayland application.

The thing im most confused about is that everything was working perfectly normal a week ago with with the man pages. In this week the only thing i remember doing in downloading org-mode for neovim.

Maybe an keybind i pressed by accident when in the man page caused this, but i cant find anything that will result in this

Last edited by folix (2026-01-30 13:09:51)

seth · 2026-01-30 13:26:59

I didnt change the configuration of the alternative layouts, fcitx5 is working perfectily fine for the last 2-3 months im using it ( and the problem didnt appear for those 2-3 months ), and i've been using kitty since i first installed arch with hyprland.

What answers absolutely none of the related questions.

In this week the only thing i remember doing in downloading org-mode for neovim.

No updates?
This thing here?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/neovim-neorg-git
So what if you remove that?

Anton.exe · 2026-01-30 13:35:01

folix wrote:

It started 2 hours before my original question's upload date.
I found that when opening a file will less, the same problem occurs.
I cant really understand how the problem started in the first place. I was just opening the man page for pacman like any other time.
terminal emulator: kitty
Compositor: Hyprland (Wayland)
The input of "/" works when switching to greek, but it of course doesnt find any matches. For the switching i have a keybind (Super+Space) or by tapping on the tray icon which appears after opening fcitx5.
I also tried switching to greek with my keybind, and then switching back to english from the tray icon ( thinking that maybe the keybind is at fault ) but nothing.

try setting TERM=xterm-256color (e.g: TERM=xterm-256color man ls ). if it works now, then it's this recent kitty-specific issue with less. it's already been closed and the pacman package is flagged out of date, but i don't know how quick the repos get updated

folix · 2026-01-30 14:12:28

Anton.exe wrote:

try setting TERM=xterm-256color (e.g: TERM=xterm-256color man ls ). if it works now, then it's this recent kitty-specific issue with less. it's already been closed and the pacman package is flagged out of date, but i don't know how quick the repos get updated

It works. Thank you!!

Last edited by folix (2026-01-30 14:18:01)

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