Linux AppImage relaunch not working

• Version: 21.2.0

• Version: 4.0.0

• Target: Linux

In my app I have to guide the user through some steps and then restart the app to apply changes. Everything works fine on MacOS and Windows 10 but when I run the AppImage, go through the steps and restart the app, it never restarts, I have to start it manually and that ruins the UX. I’m restarting the app as follows:

ipc.answerRenderer('restart-app', () => {
  app.relaunch();
  app.exit(0);
});

I also tried to pass execFile but the path where the AppImage is executed first is a /temp folder and it does restart but with missing icons and files and it eventually crashes.

[bosomt]

still broken 😃

[ragauskl]

Workaround from https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/1727#issuecomment-769896927 :

const {app} = require('electron');
  const options = {args};
  if (process.env.APPIMAGE) {
    options.execPath = process.env.APPIMAGE;
    options.args.unshift('--appimage-extract-and-run'); // <- Important part
  }
  app.relaunch(options);
  app.exit(0);