Distinguish between closed from crash and closed from within program

Bug #1331805 reported by Rune Jensen
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Cerbere
Invalid
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Bug Description

I use Openshot, and it crashes all the time, but always before playing. So, the crash is constant, it always happens in the same action..
I then installed elementary tweaks, and put openshot to be watched by cebere.
It works, because evry time openshot crashes, it reopens it, saving me lots of time.
But the things is, it also opens it again, when I close openshot from within the program.
I think there should be a way to distinguish between a program closing from a crash and a program closing, because the user clicked the close button?
If this could be built in to cerbere, it would save my day.
I know this is a hack for a bug in openshot, rather than a bug in cerbere itself, but Linux lack video editing software like nothing else.
I have tried every other video editing software for Linux, and usability of every single one is miles behind openshot. And development of openshot seems to have more or less being stopped, which leaves me with an unsolvable problem elsewise.

So, is this possible?

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Julián Unrrein (junrrein) wrote :

Maybe checking the return code on the app could work. Notice that this is not what Cerbere was intended for, though.

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Rune Jensen (runeofdenmark-n) wrote :

OK, this is most probably not the right place for this report then. Thanks for your suggestion though, it's kind of a dilemma video editing in Linux. I only intend to use hacks untill I can get a real solution.

I have marked as invalid based on your answer, that this is not what Cerbere is made for.

Changed in cerbere:
status: New → Invalid
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Julián Unrrein (junrrein) wrote :

I hope you can solve your problem, and thanks for reporting.

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Rune Jensen (runeofdenmark-n) wrote :

I'm trying to convince the developer to get OpenShot on Bountysource instead; It's a better way to target bugs if everything is in the same forum and donations for bug fixing too.

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