Comment 2 for bug 943466

I can confirm that this bug still exists in the live cd of Beta-1 of Ubuntu 12.04. Furthermore, the HUD introduced in 12.04 shows the same behavior when trying to navigate the HUD search results with the neo arrow-keys.

If you try to reproduce the bug, please be aware that as a workaround for Bug #879838, the neo keyboard layout has to be the only selected layout in the keyboard preferences to work properly.

I think 'flickering' is not the right description of the actual behavior: It seems that on pressing 'AltGr+a' (neo down-arrow-key) the first entry is selected for a very short moment, but then the focus is immediately switched back to the search-input-field. If one holds down 'AltGr+a' (neo down-arrow-key), the results are iterated, but as soon as the key is released the focus gets switched back.

My guess is that the AltGr key is treated the same way as "normal" keys: If you search something in the dash, press the down button two times to select the first entry and then type any character (e.g. 'f'), the focus gets switched back to the input field and the newly typed character gets appended to the search string.