microsoft/Terminal

Quake Mode reveal animation tears/flickers

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#12,293 opened on Jan 30, 2022

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Description

Windows Terminal version

1.11.3471.0

Windows build number

10.0.22543.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

Reveal or hide the quake mode window

Expected Behavior

No tearing/flickering

Actual Behavior

Tearing/flickering, I have attached a video which somewhat shows the effect.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/795800/151700014-898799f7-9a9d-4f26-9c03-5c9b1be07308.mp4

I have a medium-beefy PC and tearing is not an issue anywhere else, so I assume this should work for the terminal as well.

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Research direction
Investigate the reveal animation logic in the Quake Mode window, focusing on the compositing or double buffering to identify the cause of tearing.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
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