By default, when Chocolatey GUI begins what is known to be an operation that can take a while, it will show a loading modal window. When this modal is shown, there is the option to also show the console output for the operation that is currently being executed.

This is what you will see when an operation like this happens, and this feature is disabled:

When this feature becomes enabled, you will be default be able to see the contents of the console output, without having to first expand it:

Resources

Below is a short video which shows this feature in action:

Example

This feature can be enabled, for the currently logged in user, by running the following command:

chocolateyguicli feature enable --name="'ShowConsoleOutput'"

This feature can be disabled, for the currently logged in user, by running the following command:

chocolateyguicli feature disable --name="'ShowConsoleOutput'"

Or, to enable/disable it globally at the machine level, run the following commands:

chocolateyguicli feature enable --name="'ShowConsoleOutput'" --global

chocolateyguicli feature disable --name="'ShowConsoleOutput'" --global

Default Value

The default value for this feature is disabled.

Availability

The ability to control this feature from the Chocolatey GUI Settings screen has existed since Chocolatey GUI v0.15.0.

The ability to control this feature from the command line using chocolateyguicli has existed since Chocolatey GUI v0.17.0.