Find usage focuses "Rerun Search" icon
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When using ALT+F7 on a mac (or selecting the find usage option via any other mean), instead of focusing the results, the IDE focuses on the “Rerun Search” Icon in the find usages window.
This leads to not being able to navigate the usages using the arrow keys. First, one has to tab one's way through all the icons until the results take focus.
I compared this with webstorm and there it focuses the results nicely. I ran intellij like this from the terminal, too:
`idea . disableNonBundledPlugins`
this had no effect.
Thanks for any help
EDIT:
only way to put a bandaid over it for now is to hide the toolbar from the find window (e.g. rerun search, next occurance, group by etc.). Ideally I'd want to keep it though.
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Igor, J do you by chance have the Support screen readers option enabled in IDE Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance, Accessibility? If you do, was it enabled intentionally and does it help to disable it (IDE restart needed)?
Yes, that was it! Thank You, Ekatarina! I spent 15 minutes trying random settings yesterday. Would not have thought of that setting. Neither did ChatGPT etc :)
Igor, J great, thank you for letting me know. Screen reader support changes the focus behavior and the keyboard navigation in certain components, also it disables tooltips (hints shown on mouse hover) in controls. So if you face something similar in the future, you know where to look.