Terminal: Cursor resets to legacy on text entry

[volperoid]

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows v.10.0.18363.778

Windows Terminal version: PowerShell v.1.18362.752

Note: Changes have been made to the background color, font size, and scroll-forward has been disabled.

Steps to reproduce

1. Change the cursor to a non-legacy one
2. Type something

Expected behavior

Preferred cursor remains persistent.

Actual behavior

Non-legacy cursor remains persistent on console (re)launch only. As soon as any characters are typed in the console, the cursor is reset to the default, legacy version.

[DHowett-MSFT]

This is with the traditional console host -- not Windows Terminal -- right?

[volperoid]

It's the regular PowerShell, if that's what you mean.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Excellent. /dup #4124

This should be out with one of the upcoming _windows_ releases. (Sorry, we can only service the inbox console so quickly. :smile:)

[msftbot[bot]]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[volperoid]

Now to find out what 'inbox console' means... 🤔

[DHowett-MSFT]

Oh, sorry about that.

So! Powershell and CMD both use the same console window code to get their text onto the screen. It's called "conhost" (short for "console host", because it "hosts" the console APIs). It lives in "c:\windows\system32\conhost.exe".

Inbox -- i assume you know what that one means, but I'm on a roll :smile: -- is just "things that come with the Windows OS". They get updated through Windows Update or the windows install ISO.

This repository contains the source code for the console host _and_ the new Windows Terminal (which is like the console host, but it has tabs and a lot more customization!), so we usually handle all the inbox console complaints here too. Same code, same bugs!

[zadjii-msft]

The "inbox console" is conhost.exe, the terminal window that you're probably used to seeing in Windows. This is the window that appears whenever you launch cmd.exe or powershell.exe directly.

conhost is this window:

[volperoid]

Oh, wow, totally forgot about this thread. 🤔
Yeah spent a good 30 minutes figuring out the difference between a console, terminal, and shell. 😆