Question: Workflows > commandline tooling > how auto close terminals

[konradsikorski]

Hi,

I am using windows 11. I have a workflow like this:

1. comandline: path to exe file with parameters
2. comandline: path to exe with parameters
3. file path: to exe file

After executing the worflow three terminals will start and all programs from these tasks are executing properly. My problem is that i have every time close these three terminals. How to automatically close them or even better never show them?

I am using Windows terminal.

[kristus123]

i add & exit at the end of the command, that will make the terminals close.

[konradsikorski]

@kristus123 doesn't work for me :( do you use it for "command line"? for this command

explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.Todos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

i am receiving error like this:

At line:1 char:66 ... xplorer.exe shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.Todos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App & exit ~ The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double quot ation marks ("&") to pass it as part of a string.

[kristus123]

do you want to send screenshot of your config ?

for this i use "workflows" as that is the "thing" that opens cmd

[kristus123]

it seems you are opening a powershell terminal maybe ? it is probably different syntax for powershell

[kristus123]

https://chat.openai.com/share/511999b4-1ba9-4ede-b61f-8ee2b81cca14

you can try using ;

[kristus123]

also, i am curious. how do you use microsoft todo with ueli? I am a big fan of microsoft todo

[konradsikorski]

I use the Microsoft To Do every day. Basically I start my day with To Do. I want to achieve something very simple. Every day morning I use workflow workflow "Day" to start 3 apps. Looks simple but it's ridiculously complicated. I have in the workflow one task for each app and it works but after all i have 3 terminals open. So I end up with a cmd script which is run by euli workflow but this way I can write any 'workflow' in script and I do not need the euli at all.

So for anyone who has this problem. This was my workflow

this is how i solve it now by running a script

and the cmd file:

explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.Todos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

C:\Users...\AAA.exe

start "" "C:\Program Files...\BBB.EXE"

[oliverschwendener]

Thanks for the detailed description. Ueli has an issue that it waits for the commandline program to exit, so that's why the UI is frozen until you close the terminals. I will see that this issue will be fixed with v9 which is currently in an alpha state. I'll keep you posted here.

[oliverschwendener]

Can someone check if this is still an issue with the latest beta version? https://github.com/oliverschwendener/ueli/releases If so, feel free to reopen this issue.