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Windows 10: Terminal does not update when the OS theme changes #12682

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sergiubacioiu opened this issue Mar 12, 2022 · 3 comments
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Windows 10: Terminal does not update when the OS theme changes #12682

sergiubacioiu opened this issue Mar 12, 2022 · 3 comments
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Area-User Interface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal Help Wanted We encourage anyone to jump in on these. Issue-Bug It either shouldn't be doing this or needs an investigation. Priority-3 A description (P3) Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal.
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@sergiubacioiu
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Windows Terminal version

1.13.10395.0

Windows build number

10.0.19044.0

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Steps to reproduce

Open Terminal -> Settings -> Appearance -> Theme and make sure that "Use Windows theme" is active.

After changing the OS color theme the Terminal interface is not updated only after an app restart.

Expected Behavior

Update theme based on OS preferred color scheme without restarting the app.

Actual Behavior

The theme is not updated without a restart.
@sergiubacioiu sergiubacioiu added the Issue-Bug It either shouldn't be doing this or needs an investigation. label Mar 12, 2022
@ghost ghost added Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements labels Mar 12, 2022
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j4james commented Mar 13, 2022 •
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This was previously raised in #1230, but that issue is currently closed as "resolution-external", because the problem is fixed in Windows 11. So for now, the answer is that you'll need Windows 11 if you want this to work correctly.

That said, I think it might still be possible to get it working in Windows 10. I had a partial solution a while back that looked promising, but I got sidetracked with other stuff and haven't had a chance to get back to it. If/when I do finish that off, the PR should be tracked in #1230.

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rashil2000 commented Mar 17, 2022 •
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I'm using Windows 11 Build 22572 and still facing this issue. Terminal version 1.13.10395.0

The titlebar does not fully react to system theme change. The whole window needs to be restarted. Even manually changing the value of "theme" does not make it react immediately.

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@rashil2000 you might be seeing something like #12356.

I suppose I'll leave this open to handle the Windows 10 fix for #1230, to make it clearer that #1230 isn't fixed on 10.

@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added Help Wanted We encourage anyone to jump in on these. Area-User Interface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Priority-3 A description (P3) labels Mar 17, 2022
@ghost ghost removed the Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements label Mar 17, 2022
@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added this to the Icebox ❄ milestone Mar 17, 2022
@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft removed the Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting label Mar 17, 2022
@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft changed the title Update theme based on OS preferred color scheme Windows 10: Terminal does not update when the OS theme changes Mar 17, 2022
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