Enter doesn't work in save dialog

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Description of the issue: hitting enter in save dialog does nothing

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary):

  1. os: manjaro xfce up to date
  2. open terminal, type:

  3. unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

    unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID

    export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

    /usr/bin/brave

  4. (I start brave this way in order to circumvent this bug: Brave prevents screen turn off )
  5. browse to this exact page you’re reading right now
  6. hit ctr-s
  7. save dialog appears, name entry component has the focus, hit enter

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):

the save dialog does not close, the file does not get saved (clicking save with the mouse works)

Expected result:

when hitting enter the save dialog should close, the file should be saved

Reproduces how often: 100% always

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):

brave: 1.87.190

kernel: 6.18.12-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:35:51 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

manjaro: ManjaroLinux “Manjaro Linux” 26.0.3 Anh-Linh, up-to-date

Additional Information:

now I’m not sure if this is a brave bug, however the same dialog when invoked from mousepad text editor saves the file when hitting enter. let me know if this is not a brave bug, let me know where to forward this bug. thank you in advance.

2

I’d like to know if this still occurs when you launch the browser without additional commands. Additionally, has this always been the case or is this only occurring after the latest update?

Also curious to know if you can test this in another Chromium-based browser, which will help confirm whether or not the issue is Brave specific.

3

it does not.

last update or not I don’t know, used to work before last sunday

chromium shows the exact same behaviour: dialog works without the workarounds, dialog doesn’t work with the workarounds

4

Digging in a bit deeper I actually l think this would be an issue for any browser – not just Chromium. It likely that there’s some sort of “focus handling” (not sure if this is the right term here) issue or some issue caused with the xdg-desktop-portal used to communicate between your desktop environment and the browser when the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID vars are enabled.

5

can’t we have a version of brave not disabling the screensaver? I’d be glad to re-enable dbus for brave then.

6

Brave in and of itself does not do this as far as I know. Might be an extension you have installed or a site open on a tab in the browser. I’d be happy to troubleshoot that issue with you – but it seems like the save dialog issue is being caused by those env. variables.