microsoft / microsoft/terminal
"Show/Hide the Terminal window" buggy between displays
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Description
Windows Terminal version
1.14.1452.0
Windows build number
10.0.22621.0
Bug the first
Steps to reproduce
- Setting a key combination for the Action "Show/Hide the Terminal window", for example "ctrl+win+h". BTW, is this called "Global Summon"?
- Acts in the same display works fine
- Maximize Terminal window in a bigger display, then "Hide" it with keystroke.
- move mouse cursor to a smaller display, "Show" it with keystroke.
Expected Behavior
after step 4, the window shows maximized.
Actual Behavior
Focus changed, but Terminal shows ghostly
more detail:

when display failed: (Rectangle is correct)

Bug the second
Steps to reproduce
- Setup a key combination to "Show/Hide the Terminal window".
- Maximize Terminal window in a smaller display.
- Move cursor to a bigger display, press keystroke to "summon" Terminal to this display
Expected Behavior
Terminal window moves to the bigger display, and maximized
Actual Behavior
Terminal window moved to the bigger display, and "maximized" according to the window button, but actually not maximized.
Notice the buttons on the upper right corner

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First steps
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing both multi-display cases with the reported Windows Terminal and Windows builds, then trace the Show/Hide Terminal window action and its maximize-state handling. Done means the summoned window appears maximized and usable on either display.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100