diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index bcbe54ca3..f7d774d84 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This file documents all notable changes to https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy[IDE
 Release with new features and bugfixes:
 
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1964[#1964]: Fixed gui not launching with older project java versions
+* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1968[#1968]: Fixed gui blocking the terminal session while running.
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1849[#1849]: Add VSCodium support
 
 The full list of changes for this release can be found in https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/milestone/45?closed=1[milestone 2026.06.001].
diff --git a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/gui/Gui.java b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/gui/Gui.java
index a9516eb5c..01ab0ab3c 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/gui/Gui.java
+++ b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/gui/Gui.java
@@ -81,6 +81,6 @@ protected void doRun() {
      * We manually update the PATH entry with our java version, as by default IDEasy includes the SymLink under /projectname/software/java/bin in the PATH
      * In case of projects using older Java Versions, this is important as the java version of the project could potentially older.
      */
-    mvn.runTool(processContext.withPathEntry(javaInstallation.binDir()), ProcessMode.DEFAULT, args);
+    mvn.runTool(processContext.withPathEntry(javaInstallation.binDir()), ProcessMode.BACKGROUND_SILENT, args);
   }
 }
diff --git a/cli/src/main/package/gui/pom.xml b/cli/src/main/package/gui/pom.xml
index 36383100f..d7d054450 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/package/gui/pom.xml
+++ b/cli/src/main/package/gui/pom.xml
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>com.devonfw.tools.IDEasy.dev</groupId>
-    <artifactId>ide</artifactId>
-    <version>dev-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
   <groupId>com.devonfw.tools.IDEasy</groupId>
   <artifactId>ide-gui-launcher</artifactId>
   <version>$[project.version]</version>