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Room List: Closing section focusses on Room at startup

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A-Electron A-Room-List O-Occasional S-Minor T-Defect X-Needs-Info
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

Prerequisites
- You must have had both sections open (Favourites & Chats).
- No custom sections were enable in this case.
- A Room from the 'Chats' section was selected before closing the app.
- App must be closed.

Produce issue
1. Launch the app.
2. Close the 'Favourites' section.

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?
My scroll position on the Room list to be maintained
#### What happened instead?
Focussed on selected Room.

### Operating system

Linux Mint.

### Application version

Element Nightly version: 2026051401

### How did you install the app?

get-started.

### Homeserver

matrix.org

### Will you send logs?

Yes.

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