bitcoin-qt –help requires an X display even though it is not used #18602

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   rebroad commented at 7:45 am on April 12, 2020: contributor

   bitcoin-qt will fail if it does not have access to a functioning X display, even though when run with –help it doesn’t need one.

   (I’m having a go at fixing this today)

2. rebroad added the label Bug on Apr 12, 2020
3. fanquake added the label GUI on Apr 12, 2020
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   rebroad commented at 10:58 am on April 12, 2020: contributor

   The question is: should the command line instructions be displayed to stdout, or to the X display? Wasn’t earlier functionality that it would be displayed in an X window?
5. rebroad referenced this in commit 985376fa3a on Apr 12, 2020
6. rebroad referenced this in commit b8fce8f481 on Apr 12, 2020
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   MarcoFalke commented at 12:26 pm on April 12, 2020: member

   Wasn’t earlier functionality that it would be displayed in an X window?

   You can click Help -> Command line options

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   promag commented at 10:43 am on May 17, 2020: member

   Why let it show the help without X if then it can’t run? Just use bitcoind? 🙄
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   jonasschnelli commented at 1:52 pm on May 29, 2020: contributor

   I think @rebroad is right that passing a -help via commandline should display the help in commandline without touching the window manager interface.
10. 
    fanquake commented at 7:01 am on August 10, 2020: member

    I’ve moved this to the GUI repo: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/issues/48.
11. fanquake closed this on Aug 10, 2020

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