Can I run a GUI program in the background on the windows command-line?
Solution 1:
The command to launch programs from the command-line in Windows is "start"
Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.
START ["title"] [/D path] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
[/AFFINITY <hex affinity>] [/WAIT] [/B] [command/program]
[parameters]
"title" Title to display in window title bar.
path Starting directory
B Start application without creating a new window. The
application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application
enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt
the application
I The new environment will be the original environment passed
to the cmd.exe and not the current environment.
MIN Start window minimized
MAX Start window maximized
SEPARATE Start 16-bit Windows program in separate memory space
SHARED Start 16-bit Windows program in shared memory space
LOW Start application in the IDLE priority class
NORMAL Start application in the NORMAL priority class
HIGH Start application in the HIGH priority class
REALTIME Start application in the REALTIME priority class
ABOVENORMAL Start application in the ABOVENORMAL priority class
BELOWNORMAL Start application in the BELOWNORMAL priority class
AFFINITY The new application will have the specified processor
affinity mask, expressed as a hexadecimal number.
WAIT Start application and wait for it to terminate
You may want to use the MIN option to start a program minimized
Solution 2:
I don't know if it will be sufficient, but try
start emacs foo.txt
It will not go into background but it will rather start separate cmd.exe window for the command.
Solution 3:
HaHa,I successed ,To use sublime text3 as a server of markdown preview is my propose,after I closed sublime text's window,i won't work. I'd try many methods,at last it works. first,you should create a bat to start this program.
start /B "" "D:\dev\sublime3\Sublime Text 3\subl.exe" "-s" "%USERPROFILE%\Dropbox\dev\apis\*.markdown"
sencond,run this bat by schedule task.
run window+R->taskschd.msc->add a task
add a trigger to run this bat according this schedule
add this bat as a operation to execute
This result is that it works to avoid to show sublime text window.and it work conflict with sublime text normally opened.
Maybe you had guessed ,I use OmniMarkupPreviewer
plugin to preview markdown.I had fixed this bug(or not perfect feature) that it uses different view id every time.