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Gui should start in background #1968

@hohwille

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@hohwille

Actual behavior

Currently ide gui starts in foreground.
This blocks the current shell so after typing ide gui the GUI shows up but the terminal is blocked.
Only after I exit the GUI, I get BUILD SUCCESS message from maven and can continue using my terminal session.

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ide gui

Expected behavior

The GUI should be launched in the background and my terminal session should be usable even while the GUI is running (just like IDEs such as Eclipse, Intellij, etc.).

IDEasy status

IDE_ROOT is set to D:/projects
IDE_HOME is set to D:/projects/project
Your version of IDEasy is 2026.05.001-05_22_03-SNAPSHOT.
You are using a SNAPSHOT version of IDEasy. For stability consider switching to a stable release via 'ide upgrade --mode=stable'
Your version of IDEasy is 2026.05.001-05_22_03-SNAPSHOT but version 2026.05.001-20260522.032233-19 is available. Please run the following command to upgrade to the latest version:
ide upgrade
Your operating system is windows(10.0)@x64 [Windows 11@amd64]
You are online.
Found bash executable at: C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/bash.***
Found git executable at: C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/bin/git.***
Your settings are not up-to-date, please run 'ide update'.

Related/Dependent issues

#1724

Comments/Hints

The GUI should use ProcessMode.BACKGROUND to prevent this.

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    GUIGraphical User Interface of IDEasy (aka dashboard) build with JavaFxprocessexecuting external programs (ProcessContext)ready-to-implement

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