[PowerToys Run (on master)] Search box does not appear in focus if you Alt+Space after interacting with anything else

[arjunbalgovind]

After the changes to the hotkey implementation in #3825 , if you Alt+Space to show launcher, then click away, whenever you Alt+Space again the text input will not be in focus until you click inside the box again.

Don't have a 100% reliable repro yet, but it involves the above steps plus just clicking around on some other applications and typing text.

[saahmedm]

Could this be because another app has a text box in focus? (@crutkas #swag) @somil55

[arjunbalgovind]

The most reliable repro I've found so far is:

• Alt Space once to confirm that it is in focus, then alt+space to hide it.
• Open and close start menu by pressing the Windows logo on the bottom left corner. Before clicking anywhere else, hit Alt+Space. It won't be in focus

[arjunbalgovind]

It seems like if you click on the Start menu button to open and close it, the keyboard focus is on the taskbar, and for some reason it doesn't shift to launcher. @somil55 any insight on why this might happen?

[dsrivastavv]

@arjunbalgovind I am not able to repro using the steps you mentioned. The earlier focus issue was because there was a code path in which activate() wasn't being called. Activate() is required to bring the WPF window to the foreground and then you can set focus on the search box.

[arjunbalgovind]

It should be repro-able. After clicking the start menu button and clicking it again to close it (not with Win key and not by pressing somewhere else on the desktop or any other window). Also when you Alt+Space after that the cursor still appears indicating that you can type, but when you type nothing happens because it doesn't have keyboard focus.

[arjunbalgovind]

I also noticed that if I use Alt+Space and open PT Run, when I click away in the desktop it doesn't disappear. I need to either type something or I have to click inside the box to prevent that. In all these situations the cursor still appears in the search box as if it is in keyboard focus.

[arjunbalgovind]

#3469 is related to this.

[crutkas]

Fixed in 0.19.0, please visit https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/ for the latest release

[eustachi0]

After updating to v0.19 I have now this issue about the search on powertoys run being out of focus, especially after launching apps, so I have to click on the search box to type for a new search. It was working fine in the previous version.