Flickering in conhost when scrolling top part of screen

[j4james]

Windows Terminal version (or Windows build number)

Version 10.0.18363.1500

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a bash shell in conhost.
2. In the console properties, make sure you've got a large buffer size (e.g. height 9000).
3. Press enter a few times until you've filled the screen with content.
4. Execute printf "\e[1;12r" to set the scrolling margins to the top half of the screen.
5. Execute for i in {1..1000}; do printf "\n"; done to force the top half of the screen to scroll.

Expected Behavior

The top half should scroll away and then remain blank until the prompt reappears. The bottom half should remain unchanged.

Actual Behavior

The bottom half of the screen jumps up and down while the top half is scrolling

scroll-flickering.mp4

The way the scrolling is implemented (as I understand it), the bottom half of the screen is moved down, and then the whole viewport is also panned down. This should have the effect of keeping the bottom half constant, while the top half is scrolled up into the scrollback buffer.

However, it looks like the viewport pan takes effect before the bottom half of the screen is refreshed, so it initially appears to be scrolling up before it's redrawn in the correct place. Once the scrollback buffer is filled, though, this is no longer a problem. I assume that's because the scrolling is achieved by cycling the buffer instead of panning the viewport.

Also note that the DX renderer doesn't seem to have this problem (tested with the UseDx registry setting in a recent build of OpenConsole).

[zadjii-msft]

That's so weird. Wonder why we never noticed this before.

[vefatica]

I can reproduce this (exactly as in @j4james's capture) with TCC, a Windows shell.