[Console]::Beep() does not activate "Bell Notifications"

[GarThor]

Windows Terminal version

1.19.11213.0

Windows build number

10.0.19045.0

Other Software

Powershell v5 and v7

I do have oh-my-posh installed, but I don't think that affects this behavior

Steps to reproduce

o Enable "Bell notificaiton styles" in "Advanced" for your powershell profile.
o Enter the command [Console]::Beep() into the console. Observe, while the terminal does emit an audible beep, it does not alert the user in any other way (via flashing the window or the taskbar as configured).

Flashing/notifications do appear to be configurable when using the Write-Host -NoNewLine "a"` command however.

Expected Behavior

[Console]::Beep() should respect the user's configuration for bell notifications.

Actual Behavior

[Console]::Beep() does not respect the user's configuration for bell notifications.

[DHowett]

Thanks for filing! Unfortunately (and I really do mean unfortunately - this bug makes me sad), the .NET runtime or the PowerShell console adapter actually implemented Beep as a direct call to PlaySound() (as of the last time I checked). There’s no way for us to intercept that. ☹

[GarThor]

Thanks for filing! Unfortunately (and I really do mean unfortunately - this bug makes me sad), the .NET runtime or the PowerShell console adapter actually implemented Beep as a direct call to PlaySound() (as of the last time I checked). There’s no way for us to intercept that. ☹

Bummer, I kinda figured it was something like that, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

[lhecker]

I just checked the latest .NET code and it's still true today:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/039d2ecb46687e89337d6d629c295687cfe226be/src/libraries/System.Console/src/System/ConsolePal.Windows.cs#L656-L673

Because of this this bug unfortunately needs to be reported over at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime, if anything 😕.

[GarThor]

I just checked the latest .NET code and it's still true today: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/039d2ecb46687e89337d6d629c295687cfe226be/src/libraries/System.Console/src/System/ConsolePal.Windows.cs#L656-L673

Because of this this bug unfortunately needs to be reported over at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime, if anything 😕.

rad, thanks... I'll try over there.

[lhecker]

Thanks for filing it! I'm not familiar with .NET development, but as a terminal maintainer I do hope you have success. Other platforms use "`a" already (if you check out the other ConsolePal.*.cs files), so it IMO makes sense if Windows does too, even if it's only in the next big .NET version.
Maybe the best approach is to just make Beep() print "`a" while Beep(int, int) continues to use the kernel32 implementation.