From b74d11c7864fa6e20d40ef5cbead89a42f81ee5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BDisp <bd.bdisp@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 00:05:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Hack to use UseSystemConsole passed in the command line
 arguments.

---
 Terminal.Gui/Application.cs | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Terminal.Gui/Application.cs b/Terminal.Gui/Application.cs
index d697946ee..2f3ed5c82 100644
--- a/Terminal.Gui/Application.cs
+++ b/Terminal.Gui/Application.cs
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ namespace Terminal.Gui {
 
 		internal static bool _initialized = false;
 		internal static int _mainThreadId = -1;
+		private static bool? _useSystemConsole;
 
 		// INTERNAL function for initializing an app with a Toplevel factory object, driver, and mainloop.
 		//
@@ -181,6 +182,9 @@ namespace Terminal.Gui {
 				Driver = driver;
 			}
 
+			// @tig this is a hack to restore the UseSystemConsole take from the args
+			_useSystemConsole = _useSystemConsole == null ? UseSystemConsole : _useSystemConsole;
+
 			// Start the process of configuration management.
 			// Note that we end up calling LoadConfigurationFromAllSources
 			// multiple times. We need to do this because some settings are only
@@ -189,6 +193,10 @@ namespace Terminal.Gui {
 			ConfigurationManager.Load (true);
 			ConfigurationManager.Apply ();
 
+			if (UseSystemConsole != _useSystemConsole) {
+				UseSystemConsole = (bool)_useSystemConsole;
+			}
+
 			if (Driver == null) {
 				var p = Environment.OSVersion.Platform;
 				if (_forceFakeConsole) {