I'm experiencing the same issue. I have "proposed" enabled as well.
I found this debug message after trying to type a few characters into the search textfield: (evince:21835): IBUS-WARNING **: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop. Maybe this info is useful. Restarting ibus daemon seems to solve the problem for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587968 Title: evince insentitive to typing in search, page, zoom, ect fields To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1587968/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs