What a stupid, useless screen. Typing goes to the address bar, with no suggestions.
Why not just use the actual duckduckgo interface which provides actual suggestions, as you type? Oftentimes the suggestions are all I need to see
Sidenote
I just used the default screen capture program for the first screenshot. But I had to use Flameshot for the second screenshot. Because every time I used the default screen capture program for the second screenshot, the drop-down suggestions would disappear, after I pressed “Print Screen”.