ps window loses focus after start-process

[kasini3000]

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Steps to reproduce

Start-Process -FilePath  "pwsh"  -ArgumentList " -NonInteractive -NoProfile -WindowStyle hidden -file a:\pscode\TEMP_2023\temp135\aaa-v2.ps1 "

When "Start-Sleep -second 5" on aaa-v2.ps1,The parent powershell process will soon return to focus.
When "Start-Sleep -second 55" on aaa-v2.ps1,The parent powershell process will long time return to focus.

Expected behavior

Return to focus right now after The parent powershell process script end  .

Actual behavior

ps window loses focus after start-process

Error details

Cause:
The powershell window loses focus after start-process.
When the "start-process process" ends, focus will resume, depending on the length of the process execution time.

If your script contains "start-process",
in order to retrieve the focus of the powershell window, you will frequently click on the window,

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I want to write a script to fix it.
But it was found the script works normally in powershell, but does not work in win terminal.

Environment data

powershell 5.1.19041.1320 on win10
PowerShell 7.4.0-preview.3 on win10
all version win terminal.
parent powershell child pwsh,
parent pwsh child powershell,

Visuals

No response

[mklement0]

By design, Start-Process makes the newly launched process' main window the active window (the foreground window with the input focus).

Since your intent appears to be to launch a hidden PowerShell instance, use -WindowStyle Hidden with Start-Process rather than the -WindowStyle hidden CLI parameter, which bypasses the problem of losing focus.

(With the CLI parameter, a visible console window is still invariably created initially, when PowerShell is launched, and is only then hidden by PowerShell itself - at which point the focus has already been lost; see also:

• Powershell -WindowStyle Hidden still shows a window briefly #3028)

[kasini3000]

good , 3q！