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Visual Studio 2022 Debug Console does not honour font size.

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Issue-Bug Product-Terminal Resolution-External Tracking-External
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Description

Windows Terminal version

1.16.10262.0

Windows build number

22621.1702

Other Software

Visual Studio 2022 17.6.2

Steps to reproduce
  1. Set Windows Terminal as the default terminal application
  2. Change Profile -> Visual Studio Debug Console -> Appearance -> Font Size to 30
  3. Start a new Console Application with Visual Studio 2022, with the standard Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!"); and press F5 (Debug)
  4. Notice that the Debug Console that opens up, does not honour the font change.
  5. Change Change Profile -> Visual Studio Debug Console -> Appearance -> Font Size to 10
  6. Rerun Console Application created in step 3.
  7. Notice, the Debug Console that opens up, does not honour the font change.
Expected Behavior

I expect the font size in the console window that opens up to change, according to that which is set in the settings.

Actual Behavior

The font size is ignored.

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue through Profile -> Visual Studio Debug Console -> Appearance -> Font Size, using a Visual Studio 2022 Console Application launched with F5. Verify that changing the setting to 30 and 10 changes the font size in the opened Debug Console; the payload names no source file or test to inspect.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli, desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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