When search window appears mouse cursor is triggered to highlight result where the cursor is positioned about flow.launcher HOT 8 OPEN

Your step 3 already change the selection. I wouldn't say we should reselect to the top result whenever reopen the window, which might be weird.

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I wouldn't say we should reselect to the top result whenever reopen the window

If I understood correctly, they aren't asking to reselect the top result, but to ignore the mouse cursor when the window appear animation is in action. I also had this issue a few times. This issue only happens when the animations are enabled because Flow Launcher moves slightly up when it appears, triggering the selection with the mouse cursor. When animations are disabled this doesn't happen. The correct sequence of actions to reproduce this is:

0. Enable animations in the settings if they are disabled.
1. Open Flow Launcher.
2. Type something to populate the list.
3. Leave the first result selected, hit Esc to close the window.
4. Put the mouse cursor where the third result would be if the window was still open.
5. Open Flow Launcher with the shortcut. It appears and the animation of appearing triggers the selection of the result under the mouse cursor even though the mouse cursor didn't move.

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@taooceros Thanks for the reply. This is a case where trying to make it easy to reproduce masked the real concern.
@Yusyuriv You are correct regarding my issue. Thank you for the corrected sequence of actions, and especially for the explanation why this happens. I can certainly live without animation, so this request is resolved for me. I will close it.

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I still think it's an issue that should be fixed. The user doesn't move the mouse, animation shouldn't trigger the selection with the mouse cursor.

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Let's keep it open as it's a bug

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@taooceros Thanks for the reply. This is a case where trying to make it easy to reproduce masked the real concern. @Yusyuriv You are correct regarding my issue. Thank you for the corrected sequence of actions, and especially for the explanation why this happens. I can certainly live without animation, so this request is resolved for me. I will close it.

oops sorry I think I didn't successfully reproduce last time but does this time. Probably that's related to animation?

I think animation triggers the mousemove event. Don't know whether there's a good way to resolve it....

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I think we can add a small timeout whenever reshow the windows for the mousemove event.

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I plan to delete the animation of the window moving.

There is one more similar issue. When the mouse is over the window, moving the list with the keyboard puts focus on the mouse cursor. (You can easily check this by holding down the down arrow key.) Something needs to be changed about mouse hover.

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