Output of external commands gets printed to stdout

[Simon Schürrle]

In my case on Linux the call to xdg-open causes Opening in existing browser session to be printed to the console. Would it make sense to silence all output of the external tools by default unless there's an error?

[Amod Malviya]

Makes sense. Probably better with a flag (defaulted to false) that can be enabled to switch on the output.

[Zane Hitchcox]

Workaround:

Add to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
webbrowser = { git = "https://github.com/codota/webbrowser-rs", branch = "feature/add-suppress-output-flag-with-docs" }

In your code:

use webbrowser::{self, BrowserOptions};

    if webbrowser::open_browser_with_options(
      BrowserOptions {
        url: String::from(token_url),
        suppress_output: Some(true),
        browser: Some(webbrowser::Browser::Default),
      }).is_ok() {}

[Zane Hitchcox]

Ultimately should merge #22 though

[Simon Scatton]

Hello! I am having the same issue here, bump ? :)

I can take care of it if no one is doing it

[Amod Malviya]

Fixed in ecfbf66. By default, we now suppress output for all GUI browsers. This behaviour can be overridden. See Consistent Behaviour section for details.