Cannot type in new pane or tab until focus is manually activated with mouse click

[praimmugen]

Windows Terminal version

1.14.1451.0

Windows build number

10.0.19042.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

Create new pane/new tab

Expected Behavior

It is possible to type in the newly opened terminal

Actual Behavior

Unable to type until I click on the new terminal.

Note that enabling the option "Automatically focus pane on mouse hover" partially prevents the issue from happening.

It seems like focus is removed from all terminal tabs/panes whenever a new one is created.

[lhecker]

I can't reproduce this issue, unless it's an initial launch of WSL. Does your issue happen with WSL or with any shell?

[praimmugen]

Hey, thanks for having a look at this. At the moment I can reproduce it with both WSL and Powershell profiles. However it's a lot less consistent than I thought initially.

It doesn't make much sense, but mostly, after starting a new terminal, new tabs/panes are working fine (apart from the initial launch of WSL as you also noticed). However, if I switch to a different window for some time (seems like around a minute is enough, but 30 seconds is not), then go back to Windows Terminal (using Alt+Tab or mouse doesn't make a difference), I can experience the issue.

At the moment the option "Automatically focus pane on mouse hover" is disabled, so I don't think that was necessarily making any difference like I said in the initial report.

In case it helps, I'm attaching my settings.json

winterm-settings.json.zip

[jamesmcdonald]

I have an issue that might be related. If I open a terminal from the Start menu in Windows 11 by typing to search for "terminal", it almost always appears under other windows and fails to get focus. If I just click on the pinned icon in the Start menu without typing, this never happens. Opening a terminal with Win-x i also gets focus correctly, as does Ctrl-Shift-n from another terminal. This seems to be consistent with both Terminal (1.13.11432.0) and Terminal Preview (1.15.1863.0).

My default profile is WSL, in case that makes a difference. The issue affects any new windows regardless of how many terminals I have open.

[elouanKeryell-Even]

same issue here, cannot seem to get the focus on a newly opened tab

[zadjii-msft]

I'm gonna focus in on the PowerShell repro case here. The fact that the Terminal loses focus when a WSL tab is opened is a well-known bug (I believe in WSLg).

I don't have any idea why this would happen. @praimmugen when the terminal does get into this state (where apparently nothig is focused), what does pressing tab do? That should move focus to the "next" UI element, which might help us figure out where focus is currently.

[praimmugen]

when the terminal does get into this state (where apparently nothig is focused), what does pressing tab do? That should move focus to the "next" UI element, which might help us figure out where focus is currently.

Unfortunately, pressing tab has no effect - I can't see anything getting focus no matter how many times I press the key.

I'm gonna focus in on the PowerShell repro case here. The fact that the Terminal loses focus when a WSL tab is opened is a well-known bug (I believe in WSLg).

Not sure it changes things, but in my case focus is also lost when opening new WSL panes within a tab.

[zadjii-msft]

Is there anything in your PowerShell profile? If pressing tab does nothing, then I'd suspect that maybe the Terminal HWND itself doesn't even have focus, and something else is the forground window. Maybe there's something in your profile.ps1 that's like, shelling out to WSL or something