When launching mintsources, timeshift or an app which Exec field (in the desktop file)
starts with pkexec, nothing happens and the output states:
"Refusing to render service to dead parents."
For some reason this does not happen on fresh LMDE 4 and Mint 19.3 installations,
but it happens on LMDE 3 -> LMDE 4 and 19.1 -> 19.3 upgrades.
Similar bugs were fixed in nemo and cinnamon. Pkexec is known to cause issues
depending on how it's launched.
Specifying DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD in the spawn flags helps here. Afaik it makes it so
we're the parent of the pkexec process during launch. Pkexec fails to launch
otherwise.
gather_pid_callback() does nothing, it's just there to ack the pid callback. Afaik
this helps preventing zombie [defunct] processes when they terminate.
* initial cleanup with some debug messaging
* further cleanup, mostly coding style
* - more cleanup, and speed-up
- more fixes, including many icon and encoding related issues
- replace some icons and remove compile.py
- prepare for python3 port as much as possible
* remove some more unneeded files, few left-over cleanups
* move some external scripts to python3 already
* Fix and clean up add_search_suggestions and add_apt_filter_results logic
* more cleanup, thx Codacity
* fix issue with a path
* add a killall to the test script, fix a method declaration
* fix custom colour setting
* keybinding: re-add GdkX11
* re-add mint-common dep
* Use os.path.expanduser("~") instead of os.environ
* revert re-add GdkX11, but import Gtk first
Fixes https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1120639
Changes:
- Added appPath to ApplicationLauncher in easybutton.py
- Added new commandCwd argument to Exec in execute.py (defaults to None)
- ApplicationLauncher.execute() now passes CWD to execute.Exec
