I can confirm that it seems search is broken in general right now in the yakkety development build (evince 3.18.2-1ubuntu4).
To reproduce: Open a PDF through Nautilus (or command line), use Ctrl+F (or use Edit->Find from the menu), and note that no keyboard input is accepted in the search field. In fact, it appears that every text field in evince does not respond to keyboard input. I see the following errors when running from the terminal: (evince:11079): IBUS-WARNING **: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Permission denied (evince:11079): IBUS-WARNING **: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1271777 Title: cannot type in search or page boxes in evince To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1271777/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs