Hiding the command prompt window

[ownedbycats]

Currently, closing the command prompt window also closes a run-from-source Calibre. Is there a way around this? Thanks.

[Quoth]

Since forever, before Linux, on Linux

You can as well run a process directly from the background using the ampersand, &

You want maybe to type disown before you close the console.

On windows you have various options.
1) Utility to start a program as a service
2) Wrap it in some sort of script
3) Start command and then some fu stuff to detach it?
4) cygwin/MSFU/Linux subsystem Then the Linux/Unix way works

[ownedbycats]

Currently I just use a shell extension to hide it to system tray.

[gbm]

In a terminal type:

calibre & disown

That will detach calibre from the terminal.

Tested using Linux Mint 21.1 .

bernie

https://superuser.com/questions/1785...minal-entirely

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Currently, closing the command prompt window also closes a run-from-source Calibre. Is there a way around this? Thanks.

[chaley]

Are you on windows? This works for me to run calibre from source not in debug mode:

set CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM=C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src
set CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\config_test_small
start calibre

You don't need the second set if your config dir is in the standard place.

[kovidgoyal]

Note that on linux the canonical way to do this with calibre is to run it as

calibre --detach

disown does not actually work correctly in that it still leaves the stdio file handles connected to the tty. And calibre does not ignore failures to write to stdout/stderr unlike many other programs.

[ownedbycats]

Windows user. I changed my bat file to use "start calibre" and it worked

@ECHO OFF

:: set envs
set CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=D:\AppData\Calibre
set CALIBRE_CACHE_DIRECTORY=D:\Temporary\Calibre\cache
set CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR=D:\Temporary\Calibre\temp
set CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM=D:\Documents\git\calibre\src

:: run calibre from source
start calibre
:: "c:\Program Files\calibre2\calibre.exe" 
:: "c:\Program Files\calibre2\calibre-debug.exe" -g

[isarl]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Note that on linux the canonical way to do this with calibre is to run it as

calibre --detach

disown does not actually work correctly in that it still leaves the stdio file handles connected to the tty. And calibre does not ignore failures to write to stdout/stderr unlike many other programs.

IF you run Linux, and if you run Calibre from source a lot, and if your desktop environment uses the XDG specifications, then you can also likely create a .desktop file wrapping up the full path to Calibre in its source tree, and the invocation options i.e. --detach.

This link has instructions on creating your own .desktop file, but steps 1–5 are about downloading a game to use as an example, so you can skip them entirely as you presumably already know that Calibre runs properly.

[Quoth]

Or simpler still, if using a Menu that allows creation of icon on desktop or Place Bar by right Mouse menu. Create icon and then edit properties.