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fix: relaunch button could silently quit without reopening #13

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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions electron/ipc/register/permissions.ts
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Expand Up @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { app, ipcMain, shell, systemPreferences } from "electron";
import { getMacPrivacySettingsUrl } from "../utils";

export function registerPermissionHandlers() {
ipcMain.handle('relaunch-app', () => {
ipcMain.handle('relaunch-app', async () => {
// macOS caches permission-check results (getMediaAccessStatus, etc.) for
// the life of the process, so a grant made in System Settings is invisible
// until the app actually restarts - closing the window isn't enough on
Expand All @@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ export function registerPermissionHandlers() {
// lineage as double-clicking it in Finder/Dock actually has.
if (process.platform === "darwin") {
const appBundlePath = path.dirname(path.dirname(path.dirname(process.execPath)));
spawn("open", [appBundlePath], { detached: true, stdio: "ignore" }).unref();
spawn("/usr/bin/open", [appBundlePath], { detached: true, stdio: "ignore" }).unref();
// app.exit() tears the process down harder/faster than a normal quit -
// verified directly that calling it immediately after spawn() could
// kill this process before `open` finished handing off to launchd,
// silently dropping the relaunch entirely. Give it a moment first.
await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 500));
app.exit(0);
} else {
app.relaunch();
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