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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:10 am 
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Hi there,

If you bring up the start menu with Win or CTRL+ESC (common for me), and type in the search box immediately (within about 0.5s) then Classic Shell will appear and the text cursor will be in the search box.
But, Classic Shell will send the current window to the background, will lose focus (but still be topmost) and keystrokes go to the background window (the previous window that had focus before pressing the shortcuts).
To close the menu you have to click on the start menu and off it as it no longer has focus.

The attached screenshot clearly shows this behaviour. You can see that my Cygwin window is selected (but behind Informer to the right) and has focus as it has my keypresses. Also you can see the start menu is top-most and also has a caret in the search box, but isn't selected.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:21 am 
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which version of Classic Shell are you running? Are you on the latest release?

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:51 am 
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Gaurav wrote:
which version of Classic Shell are you running? Are you on the latest release?
I am on the latest, 4.2.5.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 5:02 am 
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If it's any help I have auto-hide on.


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If you think that's relevant, then try turning auto-hide off and test again. It is possible that since the menu is delayed until the taskbar is fully shown, some of the keys during that time get lost.


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PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:43 am 
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I have tried this and it seems to only affect when auto-hide is on. (But I do have `MenuShowDelay` to 0, so that might affect this when auto-hide is off.)

Is there any reason for delaying until the menu is shown?


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The menu waits until the taskbar is shown, otherwise it will appear in the middle of nothing. This is in no way related to MenuShowDelay. That's only for sub-menus.


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To avoid such confusion, "Menu Delay" should be renamed to "Sub-menu Delay".

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It is named after the "MenuShowDelay" setting in the registry.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 5:45 am 
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Hey @Ivo, this problem is getting more and more of a pain for me, is it not possible to have it popping up in the middle of nowhere, even as an option?

I'd rather this than keep typing my start menu text into the old application that had focus and I'm sure other people would agree, it seems like a bug to me that the focus goes back to the old app if you type too quickly. =(


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