Console: Console not working on Windows 10 1809 update

Created on 4 Oct 2018 · 11Comments · Source: cbucher/console

I have updated my WIndows 10 to version 1809. When I open Console I get a black console window without a path visible. When I press a key the path becomes visible,

Expected Behavior

When I open the executable I want to see the path of the directory were console is started

Actual Behavior

When I open the executable I don't see the path untill I press a key

Steps to reproduce

Open the executable

Diagnostic Report

ConsoleZ aero amd64 1.18.3.18143
Windows 10 (64 bits) [10.0.17763]
is elevated? no
UAC prefix "Administrator: "
Tab (active): PowerShell
  View (active): 1. PowerShell
  is elevated? yes
  input code page 437
  output code page 437
  Windows console font
font index: 0
face name: Consolas
font familly: 54 MODERN vector true type
font weight: 400
font size: width=8 height=16
max window size: cols=80 rows=63
  ConsoleZ font
GetFontLanguageInfo returns 262144.
The font contains extra glyphs not normally accessible using the code page.

Monitors 1
+ Flags 1  primary
  DeviceID \\?\DISPLAY#SDC4C48#4&15528784&0&UID265988#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7}
  DeviceKey \Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e96e-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0003
  DeviceName \\.\DISPLAY1\Monitor0
  DeviceString Generic PnP Monitor
  StateFlags 3
  Rect (0,0)x(1920,1080)
  Work (0,0)x(1920,1040)
  DPI (per monitor: yes) X=96 Y=96
System dpi 96
System metrics
  SM_CXSMICON        16
  SM_CYSMICON        16
  SM_CXICON          32
  SM_CYICON          32
  SM_CXVIRTUALSCREEN 1920
  SM_CYVIRTUALSCREEN 1080
  SM_CYVIRTUALSCREEN 1080
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Crash Report

No crash

Source

waaromikniet

All 11 comments

Please fill the issue by following the template.

cbucher on 4 Oct 2018

Edited my issue

waaromikniet on 4 Oct 2018

Same also happens in Visual Studio Code's terminal. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/57803

ericblade on 4 Oct 2018

Having the same issue, the window opens scrolled to the bottom cutting off the text

ddebo531 on 8 Oct 2018

I get this sporadically, in my case I think it's because of some DPI funkyness in that my monitors have different DPI... so depending what monitor I opened the tab then move it to another on it behaves differently.

mritalian on 12 Oct 2018

When I increase the windows size properties the issue is also gone. Is this a Windows 'bug' or a Console issue?

waaromikniet on 17 Dec 2018

It seems that Android Studio for Windows also has this issue. It may be a Windows bug.

liyk123 on 26 Dec 2018

This is a known Windows bug that should be fixed in the next major release for legacy code, and they expect to also release a new PTY API that should allow for drastic improvement in console type programs that use it, which will also not suffer from this bug.

ericblade on 26 Dec 2018

ConEmu doesn't appear to have this issue with cmd.exe. What is it doing differently?

layanto on 28 Feb 2019

Actually the problem is the same with EVERY TERMINAL (conemu, bash, git bash, cmd, powershell, etc...) when used "integrated" with ANY EDITOR (vscode, atom, sublimetext, etc) it's a Windows terminal API problem that (re-)appeared with last windows update. Best solution: a Linux virtual machine (VirtualBox or VMware) A shame that Microsoft after almost 40 years is still not able to make a simple terminal program work !!! How can we trust them with a full OS ????

storkweb on 19 Mar 2019

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The VSCode issue referenced above was fixed by enabling support for the new ConPTY system.

Introduction to ConPTY:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/

So existing apps should either update to support ConPTY or wait for backward compatibility fix.
Updating for the modern system would be preferred, I'd say.

What's the current plan?

Quote from the link above:

3rd Party Console/Service Developers
If you’re a developer working on a stand-alone Console/Terminal app, or are integrating a Console inside of an application, then we strongly encourage you to explore and adopt the new ConPTY API at your earliest convenience: Adopting the ConPTY API (rather than the older off-screen Console mechanism) is likely to eliminate several classes of bugs, while increasing stability, reliability, and performance.