Text Jittering and Overlapping When Typing Long Prompts

[DinMon]

When performing quick and short searches, the WebSearchShortcut extension functions correctly. However, when typing longer prompts, such as those intended for the Perplexity.ai website, the text input field exhibits significant issues. Specifically, the text flashes, jitters, and at times, characters overlap, making it difficult to compose the prompt accurately.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open the WebSearchShortcut extension through PowerToys using command.
2. Begin typing a short search query to observe normal behavior.
3. Now, type a lengthy prompt (e.g., for Perplexity.ai).
4. Observe the text input field for flashing, jittering, and overlapping characters.

Expected Behavior:

The text input should remain stable and characters should not overlap, regardless of the length of the prompt being typed.

Actual Behavior:

• Text flashes and jitters.
• Characters overlap, making it hard to read and edit the prompt.

Additional Information:

[Daydreamer-riri]

‌‌‌This is the built-in inline hint of Powertoys Run, which will appear in any plugin.

This is its normal behavior:

This is another plugin with the same behavior:

We should report this issue to Powertoys.

[Daydreamer-riri]

‌‌‌‌‌The issue has already been raised in Powertoys: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/13554

[DinMon]

I have tried using Everything PowerToys, there is does not happen because they are not returning the result list every call but using ‘yield’ for the execution.

On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 at 3:18 PM, Riri @.***> wrote:

‌‌‌‌‌The issue has already been raised in Powertoys: microsoft/PowerToys#13554 https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/13554

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[Daydreamer-riri]

‌‌‌‌‌‌‌This is mainly due to the incorrect position of the hint text in powertoys run itself. You can find this in any plugin that has set the QueryTextDisplay field and supports long text input, such as the built-in:

The issue at https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/13554 is still open, which might indicate that this issue is not a high priority.