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anth-git opened this issue Dec 2, 2024 · 5 comments
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Dark overlay in response pane of Terminal Chat reduces visibility #18270

anth-git opened this issue Dec 2, 2024 · 5 comments
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Area-Chat All things LLM or "AI" Area-UserInterface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal Issue-Bug It either shouldn't be doing this or needs an investigation. Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements Priority-3 A description (P3)

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anth-git commented Dec 2, 2024

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1.23.3311.0

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10.0.22631.4460

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The response pane in Terminal Chat should display text clearly without any dark overlay obstructing visibility

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@anth-git anth-git added Issue-Bug It either shouldn't be doing this or needs an investigation. Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting labels Dec 2, 2024
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Any chance your OS is in light theme while the Terminal is in dark theme (or any other difference in the theme like that?)

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anth-git commented Dec 2, 2024

Any chance your OS is in light theme while the Terminal is in dark theme (or any other difference in the theme like that?)

Yes it was the case. When I switched to dark theme in Windows, it looks good.

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@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added the Priority-3 A description (P3) label Dec 2, 2024
@carlos-zamora carlos-zamora added this to the Terminal v1.23 milestone Dec 11, 2024
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You may not wish to change the Windows theme. So, change the Terminal theme. Terminal->Settings->Appearance->Application Theme->Light.

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thedarkfalcon commented Apr 7, 2025

@Burt-Silverman thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately this didn't fix the problem for me. Even when changing to the terminal light theme (and closing and reopening a tab) the Terminal Chat response text was still very dark and difficult to read.

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Actually, just before posting this, I completely closed and re-opened Terminal and it resolved the problem.

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A, Seems bad behaviour Terminal is using dark by default if it causes this problem (especially considering Windows theme is Light by default).
B, I really didn't expect to have to close and re-open the Terminal to get it to fully adjust the colour scheme. Note when I initially changed the theme to light, the menu bar etc changed (so I thought the application of the new theme was complete), however the Terminal Chat window didn't get the theme applied until restart (even though I had tried closing and reopening Terminal Chat).

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I probably had to close and reopen Terminal, but I forgot to write that in my comment. Oops!

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