Different color is displayed when the Cursor color is white in Ubuntu-ColorScheme.

[jkim439]

Windows Terminal version

1.19.10821.0(Stable), 1.21.1272.0(Preview)

Windows build number

10.0.22631.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

I always use Ubuntu-ColorScheme color profile in Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS. It's not accurate, but a few months ago, there was a problem where the cursor color was displayed as very bright green(#CFF5DB) instead of white(#FFFFFF).

Cursor color is #FFFFFF, but I can see another color that is #CFF5DB. All colors except #FFFFFF are reflected normally, but only #FFFFFF is output as #CFF5DB.

Expected Behavior

Cursor color should be white(#FFFFFF).

Actual Behavior

Cursor color is very bright green(#CFF5DB).

[zadjii-msft]

Could you share your settings.json file/?

---

for my own reference:

@rem 18.04
sudo type "c:\Program Files\WindowsApps\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows_1804.2020.827.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc\Terminal\Fragments\terminal.json"

@rem 22.04
sudo type "c:\Program Files\WindowsApps\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu22.04LTS_2204.3.63.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc\Terminal\Fragments\terminal.json"
``

```jsonc
{
    "profiles": [
      {
        "updates": "{17bf3de4-5353-5709-bcf9-835bd952a95e}",
        // We have to hide this autogenerated profile as we can't change the name of existing profiles.
        // This would use WSLID like "Ubuntu-20.04" which is hard to read.
        "hidden": true
      },
      {
        "name": "Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS",
        "colorScheme": "Ubuntu-22.04-ColorScheme",
        "commandline": "ubuntu2204.exe",
        "tabTitle": "Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS",
        // This would be the idea once https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10359 is fixed.
        // "icon": "ms-appx:///Assets/Square44x44Logo.targetsize-32.png",
        "icon": "https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/49a1a858-favicon-32x32.png",
        "cursorShape": "filledBox",
        "font": {
          // Not possible right now as we have multiple appx which could ship it and needs a store
          // permission: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modernize/desktop-to-uwp-extensions#share-fonts-with-other-windows-applications
          // Also, referencing it if it does not exist will show an error message when opening
          // the profile.
          //"face": "Ubuntu Mono",
          "face": "Cascadia Mono",
          "size": 13
        }
      }
    ],
    "schemes": [
      {
        "name": "Ubuntu-22.04-ColorScheme",

        "background": "#300A24",
        "black": "#171421",
        "blue": "#0037DA",
        "brightBlack": "#767676",
        "brightBlue": "#08458F",
        "brightCyan": "#2C9FB3",
        "brightGreen": "#26A269",
        "brightPurple": "#A347BA",
        "brightRed": "#C01C28",
        "brightWhite": "#F2F2F2",
        "brightYellow": "#A2734C",
        "cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
        "cyan": "#3A96DD",
        "foreground": "#FFFFFF",
        "green": "#26A269",
        "purple": "#881798",
        "red": "#C21A23",
        "selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
        "white": "#CCCCCC",
        "yellow": "#A2734C"
      }
    ]
  }

There's no second cursor color in the profile, so that rules that out

[lhecker]

When the cursor color is #ffffff we treat it as a "inverted color" cursor. It's basically a hack that has existed for a quite a while now. We need a profile setting that says "I want inverted/reversed/colored cursors" and it would default to inverted.

[jkim439]

Only "#FFFFFF" will be displayed "#CFF5DB".

This is my settings.json.
settings.json

[zadjii-msft]

op yea forgot about cursor inverting. That explains it. I suppose then that this is sorta like #7118 - we need an explicit setting to control whether to invert the cursor or not.

For now, you can just set the cursorColor to #fffffe, and that should be white enough 😉