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I changed it to sloppy mouse focus and just need to move the mouse to the window and the cursor goes there.
okay, but I haven’t chosen sloppy mouse focus & can’t recall changing any of the default iceWM prefs, and… as soon as xfce4-appfinder launches, its entrybox grabs focus and I just start typing (don’t need to touch the mouse). In my post above, I was wondering whether you had, maybe, enabled sloppymousefocus and that was causing the behavior described in the OP.
iceWM :: Ctrl+Alt+Space (found it on this system bound to Ctrl+Space)
aha! I had forgotten about that iceWM feature.
kupfer does provide fuzzy search as you type, but (I reinstalled a stock v2.0.8 and tested) it doesn’t display the currentlist unless I press the down arrow key. Launched it from commandline and I’m seeing a lot of python exception lines. Also, its “Preferences” menu item is unresponsive. Checking my archive, I see that “kupfer-209” is what I had used previously (that may be a newer version, or a custom version I had been hacking on, back in ’18).