From 9c08e684b0410c8a9e7ac0d6e327c4318bd7b03d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: oobabooga <112222186+oobabooga@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2026 22:38:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Electron: keep Windows console + silence VAAPI warning

---
 desktop/main.js     | 5 +++++
 desktop/textgen.bat | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/desktop/main.js b/desktop/main.js
index 4c30a00a..5ac92ab8 100644
--- a/desktop/main.js
+++ b/desktop/main.js
@@ -24,10 +24,15 @@ app.setName(TITLE);
 // - no-sandbox: chrome-sandbox needs SUID root, which an unzipped tarball can't ship.
 // - no-zygote: zygote's mount namespace hides /dev/shm and /tmp from subprocesses,
 //   producing a blank gray window; disabling restores full filesystem visibility.
+// - disable-accelerated-video-decode/encode: skip Chromium's hardware video pipeline,
+//   which probes VAAPI at startup and logs a noisy version-mismatch error on systems
+//   with older libva. We don't render video content anyway.
 // Safe to disable sandboxing here — we only load our own localhost server.
 if (process.platform === "linux") {
   app.commandLine.appendSwitch("no-sandbox");
   app.commandLine.appendSwitch("no-zygote");
+  app.commandLine.appendSwitch("disable-accelerated-video-decode");
+  app.commandLine.appendSwitch("disable-accelerated-video-encode");
 }
 
 let serverProcess = null;
diff --git a/desktop/textgen.bat b/desktop/textgen.bat
index e51c0183..b669805f 100644
--- a/desktop/textgen.bat
+++ b/desktop/textgen.bat
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ for %%a in (%*) do (
     if /i "%%~a"=="--nowebui" goto :server
     if /i "%%~a"=="--listen" goto :server
 )
-start "" "%APP%\electron\electron.exe" "%APP%" -- %*
-exit /b 0
+"%APP%\electron\electron.exe" "%APP%" -- %*
+exit /b %errorlevel%
 :help
 "%APP%\portable_env\python.exe" "%APP%\server.py" --help
 exit /b %errorlevel%