Cursor shape not preserved in PowerShell

[wigster]

• Your Windows build number: 10.0.18362.53

• What you're doing and what's happening:
  Open PowerShell (5.1.18362.1)
  Set cursor shape to Solid Box (or any other non-legacy)
  Cursor is solid
  Execute command (e.g. cd, ls )
  Cursor is back to legacy shape

CMD or WSL bash work as they should

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

Cursor shape should stay fixed.

[zadjii-msft]

If you do a Remove-Module PSReadline, then Powershell works as expected. I believe that this is a bug in their code, so I'll point you at lzybkr/PSReadLine to file the issue on them.

The root cause is that calling the SetConsoleCursorInfo API will reset the console's cursor size to whatever they've requested in that API call., and that it's currently not possible to set cursor shapes with that API.

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

Same here. Windows 19 1909.