Menu "pseudo"-completion

[lzbk]

The text box in the cinnamon menu is very convenient for quicklaunch and the fact that it allows substrings and selects automatically the most likely candidate is even more convenient.

It seems that since mint 20.2 something changed and the ordering of the applications and it can break…

Example : I open TeXstudio, when I want to open xed : I type xed¶ (the mouse pointer is of course nowhere near the menu)…

[mtwebster]

Are you on Mint 20.2 still? I can't reproduce this with 20.3 (cinnamon 5.2), but I also can't think of anything that might have changed in the interim that could affect this.

[lzbk]

It is the same in 20.3. It might be a locale problem. It seems the editor also looks in the description of the application we want to launch. For instance: vers will allow you to get to the Information système, that contain the version number.

If we look for tex studio in the software library (or whatever its name in English), one can find x ed

If that's the reason of the problem, a solution to the problem would be that if the sought string is in the name of the application it should be prioritized over any other matching result.