How to connect a groovysh command to the groovyserver

[abhi18av]

Hi groovyserv team :)

Awesome work with this, it has saved me a lot of time - everytime I used groovy for scripting.

The thing is I'd really like to connect the groovysh command to the background groovyserver as well since, on a macOS groovysh command starts up a process in a way that causes the "stealing of focus" away from the terminal ( full-screen mode) and towards the desktop. It'd be really nice to be able to use groovysh just like any other cli program.

Thanks, your work is appreciated 👍

[abhi18av]

Aha, found an answer - a lot of hit and trial. So, I'll just leave the references here in case other people wish to know.

The solution is inspired from this StackOverflow thread Java headless exception when I start java using a linux daemon and I just put alias groovysh="groovysh -Djava.awt.headless=true in my .zshrc and boom, problem solved.

I mentioned this here since the fact that groovy accepts the jvm options wasn't documented anywhere. So, I'll close the issue here now.

Btw, if you have any other solution do let me know 😄