The second issue there will be a bug in the Windows operating system itself. The Microsoft menu should have detected loss of focus and closed itself. Windows 11 is very much a work in progress.
Got it.
The reason why each of the menus has different pinned lists is because of how they are represented. With groups and pages on the Win10/11 menus you may want entirely different placement of items between the styles so they have to be considered different things. Likewise the Win7/modern styles have much less space for pinned items, so showing the Win10 style pinned items would result in all the space being used up quickly.
That makes sense, just making sure I understood the intended functionality.
You should be able to pin to the menus from within Start11 itself (search or all apps list), plus from explorer windows with a right click.
I see, so you can't pin to Start11 from the native start menu apps list or native start menu search. Not a big deal, good to know that it's working as intended.
One last thing, a feature request, while I have your attention:
In Windows 11 style, would it be possible to remove the empty space outlined in red above (when your pinned items don't fill up the start menu area)? Thus the start menu would be less tall and the apps would be a closer mouse motion after opening the start menu using the taskbar start button. It also bugs me that the "All apps" button is hanging out all by itself at the top (when you remove the "pinned" text to the left of it). I wish the "All apps" button was at the bottom left where the user button currently is. I know this is more of a Windows 11 complaint, but maybe it's possible to have location options in Start11 for that button?
Thank you for your work on this app! I'm very excited for the upcoming ability to ungroup taskbar items.