From: mmalmi@cc.hut.fi
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:19:51 +0200
To: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Non-GUI option

> mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
>> Just a few clues I've found about running the same binary without a GUI:
>>
>> 1) GTK supports running a program without display:   
>> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.12/gtk-General.html#gtk-init-check.   
>> This doesn't tell if it's possible in wxWidgets though.
>
> I see it calls gtk-init-check in wxApp::Initialize.
>
> I can subclass Initialize, call the original one while suppressing the
> error message and ignore the return value.  It seems to be working.
>
> Any suggestions what to name the command line switches and how to
> describe them?  Is there any traditional standard?  I'm currently using:
> -daemon (or -d)   (Enables RPC and runs in the background)
> -server           (Enables RPC)

That seems good, I don't know of any standards about it.