TPT still freezes while it runs xdg-open
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So a while back I started this thread about TPT waiting for xdg-open to finish in Development because I thought this was something not only I'd had. The gist of it is that TPT freezes while xdg-open runs the browser, which means that, with firefox and chromium-browser at least, it either returns instantly if there's a browser session already running, or freezes until the newly created browser session shuts down.
Back then I realised that apparently jacob1 had no problems opening threads from TPT, so I thought it was just something acting up on my side and decided to ignore it. I already knew that if I had a browser open, it wouldn't freeze, so I just rolled with that and have been rolling with it since then.
I forgot to "prepare" a browser session today and TPT froze again, which reminded me of this problem, and now I'd like to ask ... what might cause this? I thought it was because TPT ran xdg-open synchronously, but seeing as jacob1's TPT doesn't freeze, that's unlikely.
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What desktop environment do you use? Maybe it depends on that. I use MATE (based on gnome 2). That seems very broken that xdg-open would block until the process it launches exits. I'm not sure what we could do in that case, maybe somehow detect whatever on your system is broken and launch a new process to call xdg-open in that case (strange)
If you type xdg-open google.com in a terminal, does the terminal block until the browser closes?Edited once by jacob2. Last: 18th Aug 2016 -
I'm not sure if that is normal, I've only ever used MATE. In that xdg-open won't freeze if the browser isn't already open, it just immediately returns and then the browser will open.
I also tested and it worked like that in gnome 2.
If the blocking is common there are still workarounds we can do in tpt.
