Fcitx5 cannot get focus for Kickoff search box until typing some characters

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Hi! :wave:
I’m using Plasma-6.2.0 Wayland and Fcitx5-5.1.11
I notice a regression( not sure ) when I open kickoff launcher and type some words directly to search something.
The Fcitx5’s popup not showing until typing some chars.
It seems that not getting focus from the kickoff search box is what to be blamed.
When I click that search box to get focus manually, Fcitx5 will work as expect.
Krunner is working fine, So I am convinced that it comes to do with a focus issue.

Here is a GIF to show what happened.
2024-10-11-11:56:29.770780554
(Firstly, I type “abcd” as an example, “a” is ignored. Then I click text box to get focus, this time it works)

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I have the same problem but it has been happening for as long as I can remember. Not specific to 6.2 I think.

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You’re right. I found this bug filled 2 years ago.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459269
So It must have been there for some time. :joy:

And found this MR. Not sure is somehow a relavent fix or not.

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As a workaround, you can use CTRL+F after Kickoff opens and then start typing

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