diff --git a/applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml b/applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml
--- a/applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml
+++ b/applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@
     })
 
     readonly property bool highlighted: (inPopup && activeFocus) || (!inPopup && containsMouse)
+        || (task.contextMenu && task.contextMenu.visualParent === task && task.contextMenu.status === PlasmaComponents.DialogStatus.Open)
+        || (groupDialog.visible && groupDialog.visualParent === task)
 
     function hideToolTipTemporarily() {
         toolTipArea.hideToolTip();
@@ -212,7 +214,8 @@
     }
 
     function showContextMenu(args) {
-        tasks.createContextMenu(task, modelIndex(), args).show();
+        contextMenu = tasks.createContextMenu(task, modelIndex(), args);
+        contextMenu.show();
     }
 
     function updateAudioStreams() {
@@ -394,7 +397,7 @@
 
             anchors.fill: parent
 
-            active: task.highlighted || (task.contextMenu && task.contextMenu.status == PlasmaComponents.DialogStatus.Open)
+            active: task.highlighted
             enabled: true
             usesPlasmaTheme: false
 
@@ -499,8 +502,7 @@
         },
         State {
             name: "hovered"
-            when: ((task.highlighted && frame.hasElementPrefix("hover") && plasmoid.configuration.taskHoverEffect)
-                || (contextMenu.status == PlasmaComponents.DialogStatus.Open && contextMenu.visualParent == task))
+            when: task.highlighted && frame.hasElementPrefix("hover") && plasmoid.configuration.taskHoverEffect
 
             PropertyChanges {
                 target: frame
@@ -518,16 +520,16 @@
         },
         State {
             name: "minimized"
-            when: model.IsMinimized === true && !(groupDialog.visible && groupDialog.visualParent == task)
+            when: model.IsMinimized === true
 
             PropertyChanges {
                 target: frame
                 basePrefix: "minimized"
             }
         },
         State {
             name: "active"
-            when: model.IsActive === true || groupDialog.visible && groupDialog.visualParent == task
+            when: model.IsActive === true
 
             PropertyChanges {
                 target: frame