diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 5125b57b..b1ff906a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -3310,6 +3310,7 @@ Matthias Senzel <matthias.senzel@t-online.de>
  lock is held while the error message is displayed
  for reporting that the info of a newly edited recording was not available immediately
  after starting the editing process
+ for reporting a problem with setting the initial offset of the cursor in a list menu
 
 Marek Nazarko <mnazarko@gmail.com>
  for translating OSD texts to the Polish language
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index b056690d..fbdd9163 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9329,3 +9329,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed a possible discrepancy of the primary device number in the LSTD and PRIM
   commands, by setting Setup.PrimaryDVB in cDevice::SetPrimaryDevice() (reported by
   Jürgen Schneider).
+- Fixed setting the initial offset of the cursor in a list menu (reported by Matthias
+  Senzel).
diff --git a/menu.c b/menu.c
index d5300153..22d27014 100644
--- a/menu.c
+++ b/menu.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menu.c 4.69 2018/03/18 12:01:09 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menu.c 4.70 2018/03/24 11:43:40 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "menu.h"
@@ -3010,6 +3010,7 @@ void cMenuRecordings::Set(bool Refresh)
      Clear();
      GetRecordingsSortMode(DirectoryName());
      Recordings->Sort();
+     cMenuRecordingItem *CurrentItem = NULL;
      cMenuRecordingItem *LastItem = NULL;
      for (const cRecording *Recording = Recordings->First(); Recording; Recording = Recordings->Next(Recording)) {
          if ((!filter || filter->Filter(Recording)) && (!base || (strstr(Recording->Name(), base) == Recording->Name() && Recording->Name()[strlen(base)] == FOLDERDELIMCHAR))) {
@@ -3035,15 +3036,16 @@ void cMenuRecordings::Set(bool Refresh)
             if (LastItem || LastDir) {
                if (*path) {
                   if (strcmp(path, Recording->Folder()) == 0)
-                     SetCurrent(LastDir ? LastDir : LastItem);
+                     CurrentItem = LastDir ? LastDir : LastItem;
                   }
                else if (CurrentRecording && strcmp(CurrentRecording, Recording->FileName()) == 0)
-                  SetCurrent(LastDir ? LastDir : LastItem);
+                  CurrentItem = LastDir ? LastDir : LastItem;
                }
             if (LastDir)
                LastDir->IncrementCounter(Recording->IsNew());
             }
          }
+     SetCurrent(CurrentItem);
      if (Current() < 0)
         SetCurrent(Get(current)); // last resort, in case the recording was deleted
      SetMenuSortMode(RecordingsSortMode == rsmName ? msmName : msmTime);
diff --git a/osdbase.c b/osdbase.c
index 1720022d..d555af98 100644
--- a/osdbase.c
+++ b/osdbase.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: osdbase.c 4.4 2018/03/06 10:38:18 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: osdbase.c 4.5 2018/03/24 11:47:45 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "osdbase.h"
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ void cOsdMenu::Clear(void)
 {
   if (marked >= 0)
      SetStatus(NULL);
-  lastOffset = (current > first) ? current - first : 0;
+  if (current >= 0)
+     lastOffset = (current > first) ? current - first : 0;
   first = 0;
   current = marked = -1;
   cList<cOsdItem>::Clear();