colortool.exe does not exit after executing

[boompig]

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• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.48]

• What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy & paste specific commands and their output, or include screen shots)

I'm trying to use the color tool to change the color scheme. Whenever I execute it within cmd.exe, it does not exit. Also the effects (even with --both) don't seem to persist when I close the hung window and open a new one.

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:

1. Color tool does not exit and freezes cmd

To repro:

cd Downloads
colortool.exe --both OneHalfDark

Please see attached screenshot:

[zadjii-msft]

Can you right click on the title bar of the "hung" window and click on the "Properties" option? What does the "Colors" Tab look like?

I'd guess that conhost isn't actually hung, it's just rendering white-on-white text for some reason. It might be possible that we're not restoring the fg/bg colors at the end of printing the table.

Does adding the --quiet argument fix it?

[boompig]

It does look like it's correctly setting everything in the properties window:

It also does correctly exit and change the current appearance when --quiet is specified. I suspect you're right about the white text.

However the changes do not persist when I open a new window (--both --quiet)

[zadjii-msft]

How are you launching cmd?

• Via the run box (eg. win+r, "cmd")
• Via the start menu
• Via the "Start Menu Shortcut" (the one that's brought up when you right click on the start button, also "Win+X, C"
• Another shortcut
• some other way?

This actually makes a great deal of difference to how the settings are stored (unfortunately). Most likely, you'll have to actually hit OK in the prop sheet for the changes to persist.

I'd try changing your Text Foreground to something other than white to check if that's it.

[boompig]

• When launched via ctrl+r cmd: the color scheme is applied, but the colors are not right. For example, here is what OneHalfDark looks like:

However you can see that --quiet is not required in this case. I get these results both with and without --quiet.

Same result with launching via start menu.

The initial problem manifested itself via taskbar shortcut right click:

And here I am not seeing any theming applied at all

[boompig]

When launched via ctrl+r + cmd, I get the view in the previous screenshot. When launched via right click on taskbar, I see this (completely unstyled):