Terminal loses focus on launch

[amzon-ex]

Windows Terminal version

1.11.3471.0

Windows build number

10.0.22000.376

Other Software

WSL (Ubuntu-21.10)
oh-my-posh 6.42.4 (just listing - don't know if relevant)

Steps to reproduce

When I start Terminal (my default is set to an Ubuntu 21.10 WSL distro) and WSL is not running (on Win startup or shut down forcibly by wsl --shutdown), after WSL starts and the prompt appears, Terminal loses focus and requires clicking on the window (or Alt-Tabbing) to shift focus again. This problem seems remotely related to #11952 but has nothing to do with Visual Studio.
This problem does not happen when WSL is already running.

It happens irrespective of the method I use to start Terminal, primarily 3:

• Right-click context menu (example video below)
• Win+X → I method
• Using Microsoft Powertoys

_22-01-11_14-45-04.mp4

Expected Behavior

Terminal launches, acquires focus and stays that way until intended to by the user (or some other relevant process).

Actual Behavior

Terminal launches, acquires focus, but loses it on appearance of the prompt when WSL starts from a shutdown state.

[zadjii-msft]

This sounds like #10050 to me. I bet there's an issue on the WSL issue tracker for this...

[amzon-ex]

I see microsoft/WSL#2597 and microsoft/WSL#3123 both of which are closed and point to #179 which has been marked as solved, but the issue apparently persists. Is there any other active thread pertaining to this? I see #8720 but it seems a little different, like with all apps. WSL issue tracker seems to redirect back to this repo in many cases.

[zadjii-msft]

@amzon-ex can you check if disabling Linux GUI support by adding the below to .wslconfig (refer docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#configure-global-options-with-wslconfig)

[wsl2]
guiapplications=false

For linking:

• Windows window constantly losing focus and flickering wslg#443
• automatically switches the input method when open wsl terminal on win11  WSL#7511

[amzon-ex]

Whoa, that fixes it! (albeit at the sacrifice of GUI app support...)
I'm on WSLg version 1.0.28, which microsoft/wslg#443 seems to refer to as the patch in which the issue there is not reproducible.

[zadjii-msft]

Well, I'm glad we've got a beat on the root cause at least. I'd follow up on their repo with that, so they can fix this. Thanks for the confirmation!

/dup microsoft/wslg#443

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