From 2d1ab6f12c5fce965a956b50cbd9f93135de88b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BDisp <bd.bdisp@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:53:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #4196. Application.Begin doesn't refresh the screen at
 start

---
 Terminal.Gui/App/Application.Run.cs       | 11 +++++++++--
 Tests/UnitTests/Views/SpinnerViewTests.cs |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Terminal.Gui/App/Application.Run.cs b/Terminal.Gui/App/Application.Run.cs
index 30c1384a3..48ee9b4d4 100644
--- a/Terminal.Gui/App/Application.Run.cs
+++ b/Terminal.Gui/App/Application.Run.cs
@@ -212,8 +212,15 @@ public static partial class Application // Run (Begin, Run, End, Stop)
 
         NotifyNewRunState?.Invoke (toplevel, new (rs));
 
-        // Force an Idle event so that an Iteration (and Refresh) happen.
-        Invoke (() => { });
+        if (!ConsoleDriver.RunningUnitTests)
+        {
+            // Force an Idle event so that an Iteration (and Refresh) happen.
+            Task.Run (() =>
+                      {
+                          Invoke (() => { });
+                          Task.Delay (10).Wait ();
+                      });
+        }
 
         return rs;
     }
diff --git a/Tests/UnitTests/Views/SpinnerViewTests.cs b/Tests/UnitTests/Views/SpinnerViewTests.cs
index 6382f8297..a77fa9488 100644
--- a/Tests/UnitTests/Views/SpinnerViewTests.cs
+++ b/Tests/UnitTests/Views/SpinnerViewTests.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ public class SpinnerViewTests (ITestOutputHelper output)
     [InlineData (false)]
     public void TestSpinnerView_AutoSpin (bool callStop)
     {
+        ConsoleDriver.RunningUnitTests = true;
+
         SpinnerView view = GetSpinnerView ();
 
         Assert.Empty (Application.MainLoop.TimedEvents.Timeouts);