SystemcallPrivate d(infile, outfile, errfile);
#ifdef Q_OS_WIN32
+ // QProcess::startDetached cannot provide environment variables. When the
+ // environment variables are set using the latexEnvCmdPrefix and the process
+ // is started with QProcess::startDetached, a console window is shown every
+ // time a viewer is started. To avoid this, we fall back on Windows to the
+ // original implementation that creates a QProcess object.
d.startProcess(cmd, path, false);
if (!d.waitWhile(SystemcallPrivate::Starting, process_events, -1)) {
LYXERR0("Systemcall: '" << cmd << "' did not start!");