Vscode: Terminal strange background color

[farebord]

• VSCode Version: 1.31.1
• OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open VSCode.
2. Toggle view on the terminal.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

How does it look?

I've tried using terminal.background under customization to see if that was the problem. It wasn't.

My current user config:

{
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe",
    "git.autofetch": true,
    "window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
    "window.zoomLevel": 1,
    "php.validate.executablePath": "C:\\xampp\\php\\php.exe",
    "explorer.confirmDelete": false,
    "python.linting.enabled": false,
    "python.linting.flake8Enabled": true,
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Visual Studio Dark"
}

Edit: Apparently the terminal changes color and go even brighter after some usage.

[Tyriar]

I can't reproduce, what happens with different themes? Does it work if you switch themes and go back?

[farebord]

Nop. Its the same for all themes except Light version. I've tried running withoud extensions and reinstalling it.

[Tyriar]

@farebord Have you customized the background color or other colors inside cmd.exe or powershell.exe? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/68865#issuecomment-467309670

[farebord]

@farebord Have you customized the background color or other colors inside cmd.exe or powershell.exe? #68865 (comment)

Nop. Btw I use cmd.exe without any changes on the background color.

[Tyriar]

Unfortunately we probably can't action this, however in the next version of Windows 10 (190*) we are moving over to a new backend which should fix most issues like this.

/duplicate https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/45693

[farebord]

@Tyriar this issue is fix when change "terminal.integrated.rendererType": "canvas" to "terminal.integrated.rendererType": "dom".

Hope that helps you find the bug. I'm out.

[Tyriar]

@farebord it's interesting that's the fix. I'll keep a lookout for other reports, thanks.

[stephendeo]

@farebord this was driving me nuts! thanks for the fix

[dylanparry]

@Tyriar I get the same issue in Ubuntu. The solution above fixes it for me too.

[Tyriar]

If anyone can still reproduce this I need better steps and a setting.json file to try reproduce myself, please comment in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/71568 to help out 🙂