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Paul Masri-Stone
Paul Masri-Stone

Reputation: 3139

Why does an external terminal window open when I run a project in Qt Creator?

Usually when I run my Qt projects, all the debug info appears in the Applications pane within Qt Creator. Weirdly my latest project opens a terminal window and puts all the output there instead.

When I quit the app, the terminal window says Press <RETURN> to close this window... and the window title shows qtcreator_process_stub

Why is this happening and how can I go back to seeing debug info within Qt Creator?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1744

Answers (2)

ivanleoncz
ivanleoncz

Reputation: 10055

Also, if you don't want QT to always run your code in a terminal, go to:

  • Edit > Preferences > Build & Run > Default for 'Run in Terminal' and select Disabled

More info on this link.

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From now and on, all projects created, will have their build kit options with Run in Terminal unchecked. Projects created before this modification, will not be affected by this general configuration, but they can be manually changed to not run the in a terminal

Upvotes: 0

Paul Masri-Stone
Paul Masri-Stone

Reputation: 3139

The Run in terminal option has been set for this project (for this build kit).

To change the setting within Qt Creator, open the Build & Run kits for the project. (Projects tab on sidebar). Select Run for the kit you're interested in and, under the heading Run you'll see checkbox Run in terminal. Uncheck this.

Alternatively open the .pro.user file and search for UseTerminal. Depending on which version of Qt Creator you're using you'll see a line like this:

<value type="bool" key="Qt4ProjectManager.Qt4RunConfiguration.UseTerminal">true</value>

Change true to false

Upvotes: 1

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