Option ‘--headful’ doesn’t run GToolkit headfully

[Rinzwind]

When used with ‘GToolkit64-release’ as in the following, the option --headful doesn’t run it headfully:

./bin/smalltalkci --headful --smalltalk GToolkit64-release

[Rinzwind]

Also, when opening the ‘GlamorousToolkit’ app (on macOS) in the folder in the ‘_builds’ folder, the image runs without opening a window, which is related to GToolkit issue #3901.

[fniephaus]

Hi @Rinzwind, thanks for opening the ticket. I guess your last comment implies that this is a GToolkit bug?

[Rinzwind]

I suspect the problem in the first comment is due to not passing --interactive to GlamorousToolkit-cli. That causes the problem in the second comment due to the GToolkit issue.

[fniephaus]

It seems the GToolkit integration does not handle is_headless.
Squeak sets specific VM flags:

smalltalkCI/squeak/run.sh

Lines 295 to 304 in 75da829

	if is_travis_build || is_headless; then
	case "$(uname -s)" in
	"Linux")
	vm_flags="-nosound -vm-display-null"
	;;
	"Darwin"|"CYGWIN_NT-"*|"MINGW64_NT-"*)
	vm_flags="-headless"
	;;
	esac
	fi

Pharo picks another launcher: https://github.com/hpi-swa/smalltalkCI/blob/75da829008f23bf1cd5e83b3b7904ffc4ae4ca55/pharo/run.sh#L270C6-L274

Maybe this is something @seandenigris could look into?

[Rinzwind]

Regarding the problem related to GToolkit issue #3901: smalltalkCI may need to use ‘GlamorousToolkit-image-without-world.zip’ as suggested in a comment in the issue, at least for the scenario of building an image headlessly on a CI server and then locally running it headfully.

[seandenigris]

I’ve compiled all the hints I’ve collected here: feenkcom/gtoolkit#3901 (comment). I think I have a path forward, but I'm waiting on two points of clarification from the Feenk team.