Ctrl+F not working. Find from menu does, though.

[hossameldeen]

Operation System: Ubuntu 16.04
Beaker version: Source-latest (7bac87c)

Problem

Ctrl+F not working. "Find in page" from menu works, though.

Relevant

• This happened after When Beaker is running, _sometimes_ some shortcuts stop working on _other_ programs #1189's fix.
• This also happened when we tried to upgrade electron-localshortcut to 3.x.
• The shortcuts in the UI menu read stuff like "^F". Not sure if this has always been the case; just mentioning it in case it helps.
  

Opened it as a separate issue from #1189 as it's a different problem.

And really, it's no big deal for me and not urgent at all :). And thanks again for fixing #1189, that was awesome! and it eliminated a pain point indeed.

[pfrazee]

Thanks for reporting, I'll check into it.

[pfrazee]

Huh, I'm not able to reproduce this on Ubuntu 18.04

[hossameldeen]

I'm not intending to spend time debugging it for now, it's not that much of an issue for me currently. When I have time, will see how to extract useful Ubuntu logs to debug this problem (event listeners on Ubuntu level, .. etc).

For now, to anyone reading this:

1. If you're experiencing the problem as well, please tell us to make sure it's not a fault at my side.
2. If you know how to get useful Ubuntu logs to debug this issue, please tell us.

[pujux]

I would be really interested in the outcome of this issue! Sadly, no idea what could cause this yet.

[pfrazee]

@hossameldeen are there any other shortcuts that dont work, by chance?

[pujux]

@pfrazee Does beaker internally log out errors? If so, where could one find them?

[pfrazee]

beaker://debug-log/

[pujux]

Thanks! Since you didn't mention it, I guess, you won't find any errors related to this issue in the log? That was my first thought, but ubuntu's error logs might be more helpful.

[pfrazee]

Probably not. The debug-log is really noisy right now and I might remove some of the dat events because we now have the swarm debugger.

[hossameldeen]

@pfrazee You're right, some other shortcuts don't work. For the menu shortcuts:

• Ctrl+N, T work.
• Ctrl+F, H, O don't.

I don't know what other shortcuts there are, but Ctrl+number and Ctrl+W work.

[pfrazee]

The ones that work seem to be the ones registered using our localshortcut module. The ones that fail are the keyboard accelerators. I'd bet a nickle it's related to electron/electron#15094.

[hossameldeen]

Your work on localshortcut wasn't in vain indeed, @pfrazee :-)

[gabefair]

I am also encountering this issue. Using the keyboard shortcut ctrl+F on Windows 10-Pro (1903) 64-bit.
My logs are below:

beaker Uncaught exception: Error: Must provide a non-empty search content
at WebContents.findInPage (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\beaker-browser\resources\electron.asar\browser\api\web-contents.js:321:15)
at View.moveInpageFind (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\beaker-browser\resources\app.asar\background-process.build.js:2494:22)
at View.showInpageFind (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\beaker-browser\resources\app.asar\background-process.build.js:2471:12)
at click (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\beaker-browser\resources\app.asar\background-process.build.js:1847:26)
at MenuItem.click (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\beaker-browser\resources\electron.asar\browser\api\menu-item.js:56:9)
at Function.executeCommand (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\beaker-browser\resources\electron.asar\browser\api\menu.js:31:13)