Persistent Console Window Opened at Start Time

[tsmaeder]

Bug Description:

When I start up Theia IDE, a command line window opens that does not go away. The title bar showed something about "MCP" at first, but now it's just an empty windows

Additional Information

• Operating System: Windows 11
• Theia Version: 1.59.0 preview

[sdirix]

Note that MCP servers now autostart. So if you still have a MCP server whose invocation opens a terminal in your preferences, it will be started with every start of the Theia IDE. You can either remove the server or set it to autostart: false

[tsmaeder]

There are cases where we don't control it, but if we start the mcp servers ourselves, we should make sure we're starting the service in a way that does not show a console window. I seem to recall that is possible if you pass the right incantation.

[sdirix]

We start whatever the user defined in their preferences via the MCP SDK. Not sure what we could do to improve this.