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In the case of dynamic background, the window tab bar flickers #18709

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1.22.10731.0

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powershell 7 ?
This problem has little to do with the shell. Both PowerShell and WSL can reproduce it.

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As the title says, the window tab bar flashes in the case of dynamic background.
I'm not sure if the problem only occurs with dynamic backgrounds, but I can reproduce it with a dynamic background.
This dynamic background can be a playing video, a real-time statistics report, or a scrolling browser banner ad.
It looks like the window is switching between focus and non-focus quickly.

Below are two videos. The first one is a screen recording from the system, which records the flickering of the window. The other one is recorded with a mobile phone, and the problem is reproduced by playing the previous video.

1:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/476b63f7-1119-45c5-a269-0d9e197a6c4b
(edit:It seems that the video quality has been compressed, and the flickering is no longer visible. The original video is here
the first one.zip

2:I don't know why this video can't be uploaded, so I use a compressed package ( bugs are EVERYWHERE !!)
VID20250322.zip

The flicker frequency in the video is very low, but in actual use there are much faster flickers

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NO flickering

Actual Behavior

flickering

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