JAL-3830 Look for --headless mode and add -Djava.awt.headless=true to java invocation...

diff --git a/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java b/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
index 3a733f3..1f86926 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
+++ b/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
@@ -810,6 +810,7 @@ public class Jalview
     // Run Commands from cli
     cmds = new Commands(argparser, headlessArg);
     boolean commandsSuccess = cmds.argsWereParsed();
+
     if (commandsSuccess)
     {
       if (headlessArg)
@@ -822,6 +823,11 @@ public class Jalview
         }
         else
         {
+          // record usage stats if in headless mode
+          if (Cache.getDefault("USAGESTATS", false))
+          {
+            Cache.initGoogleTracker(headlessArg);
+          }
           Jalview.exit("Successfully completed commands in headless mode",
                   0);
         }

diff --git a/src/jalview/bin/Launcher.java b/src/jalview/bin/Launcher.java
index a87d322..f199002 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/bin/Launcher.java
+++ b/src/jalview/bin/Launcher.java
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ public class Launcher
 {
   private final static String startClass = "jalview.bin.Jalview";
 
+  private final static String headlessProperty = "java.awt.headless";
+
   private static boolean checkJVMSymlink(String testBin)
   {
     File testBinFile = new File(testBin);
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ public class Launcher
     boolean debug = false;
     boolean wait = true;
     boolean quiet = false;
+    boolean headless = false;
     // must set --debug before --launcher...
     boolean launcherstop = false;
     boolean launcherprint = false;
@@ -142,6 +145,10 @@ public class Launcher
       {
         quiet = true;
       }
+      if (arg.equals("--headless"))
+      {
+        headless = true;
+      }
       if (debug && arg.equals("--launcherprint"))
       {
         launcherprint = true;
@@ -221,6 +228,7 @@ public class Launcher
     boolean memSet = false;
     boolean dockIcon = false;
     boolean dockName = false;
+    boolean headlessProp = false;
     for (int i = 0; i < command.size(); i++)
     {
       String arg = command.get(i);
@@ -241,6 +249,10 @@ public class Launcher
       {
         dockName = true;
       }
+      else if (arg.startsWith("-D" + headlessProperty + "="))
+      {
+        headlessProp = true;
+      }
     }
 
     if (!memSet)
@@ -276,6 +288,11 @@ public class Launcher
                 + appName);
       }
     }
+    if (headless && !headlessProp)
+    {
+      System.setProperty(headlessProperty, "true");
+      command.add("-D" + headlessProperty + "=true");
+    }
 
     String scalePropertyArg = HiDPISetting.getScalePropertyArg();
     if (scalePropertyArg != null)

diff --git a/utils/getdown/bin/jalview.sh b/utils/getdown/bin/jalview.sh
index 9e3a8c7..c1ad597 100755 (executable)
--- a/utils/getdown/bin/jalview.sh
+++ b/utils/getdown/bin/jalview.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ if [ "$( uname -s )" = "Darwin" ]; then
   ISMACOS=1
 fi
 
+# check for headless mode
+HEADLESS=0
+for ARG in ARGS; do
+  if [ "${ARG}" = "--headless" ]; then
+    HEADLESS=1
+    break
+  fi
+done
+
 declare -a JVMARGS=()
 
 # set vars for being inside the macos App Bundle
@@ -57,6 +66,11 @@ else
   JAVA="${APPDIR}/jre/bin/java"
 fi
 
+if [ "${HEADLESS}" = 1 ]; then
+  # this suppresses the Java icon appearing in the macOS Dock and maybe other things in other OSes
+  JVMARGS=( "${JVMARGS[@]}" "-Djava.awt.headless=true" )
+fi
+
 SYSJAVA=java
 GETDOWNTXT="${APPDIR}/getdown.txt"