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I've been running Mousehole, though I've not done anything too special quite yet. I've just started looking at the source, but I decided to make a few simple changes that, for me, make running Mousehole a bit nicer.

Out of the box (at least on Windows, running the readymade binary download), launching MH gives you an ever-present cmd shell window. This is the result of creating mousehole.exe using the default RubyScript2Exe settings.

However, you can tell RubyScript2Exe to use rubyw.exe rather than ruby.exe, which eliminates the visible shell window.

Now MH will run nicely in the background.

Ah, but now you can't stop it using Ctrl-C.

The next step is to tell MH to quit when it receives a special URL.

I added this to mousehole.rb:

Now I can stop MH by calling