For about a month now, searching by entering the first few characters of a file will occasionally malfunction. I am not able to reliably reproduce this, but I've received reports from others that they've encountered a similar regression.

The main symptom is that entering the first couple of characters will not select the relevant file/folder. These characters also do not appear in the quick-search box on the bottom right of the window.

Resolving the problem after it occurs can sometimes be done by switching to a different application and back to thunar. Re-launching a thunar window is sometimes necessary. 

Any information I think could be relevant:
- Thunar version: 1.8.4 (no distro-specific patches)
- Window manager: i3 version 4.16.1
- Distribution: Arch

I realize that the description is a tad lackluster, but I'm willing to supply any additional information upon request. I suspect the defect has been introduced somewhere after version 1.8.2 since I've only noticed it in 2019. Arch has been shipping version >=1.8.2 since the beginning of this year [1].

[1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/thunar