START /MIN WT?

[vefatica]

Environment

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 10.0.19042.746 (2009, 20H2) WindowsTerminalPreview_1.6.10272.0_x64

Windows build number: [run `[Environment]::OSVersion` for powershell, or `ver` for cmd]
Windows Terminal version (if applicable):

Any other software?

Steps to reproduce

In CMD.EXE, issue START /MIN WT

Expected behavior

WT starts minimized and can be restored.

Actual behavior

WT starts minimized and can't be restored. The taskbar icon is rather lame.

I couldn't get good pics of the taskbar icon's popup thumbnails because they close when I activate the screen clipper.

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

Related issues, although not duplicates:

• https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/7374 a request for a wt command-line option that could be used instead of START /MIN.
• https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/7396 crash after START /MIN. As far as I know, it does not crash nowadays. This issue also mentions strange UI behaviour.

[zadjii-msft]

Yea, this is definitely unique compared to the other two. Repros easy enough. Real weird. I wonder if the OS is unhappy about us trying to set a window position when starting minimized is requested. Hard to know for sure, user32 is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[just1a-person]

Screenshots from Alt-Tab:

[zadjii-msft]

We accidentally found the fix for this in 75d30651a, in #12979

[zadjii-msft]

Whoops, we reverted this but never reopened it.