Launched apps are not in their own cgroup

[qwertychouskie]

Distribution

21.3

Package version

6.0.4

Graphics hardware in use

N/A

Frequency

Always

Bug description

When launching an application (e.g. a shortcut pinned to the panel), the launched application is a part of the same cgroup as the DE itself, rather than in its own cgroup. This means that various system monitor apps (e.g. Mission Center) show launched applications as a subprocess of cinnamon, rather than actually an application.

Steps to reproduce

Launch an application (e.g. Firefox), then look for it in the Applications section of a task manager/system monitor utility (e.g. Mission Center).

Expected behavior

When applications are launched, they should be given their own cgroup, rather than using the DE's cgroup.

Additional information

From https://gitlab.com/mission-center-devs/mission-center/-/issues/102#note_1669993731:

I've set up a VM with the latest version of Linux Mint and looked into this bug.

Currently Mission Center does some very simple heuristics to try to determine running apps, but the bulk of the logic relies on the DE registering a cgroup for each app a user launches. Linux Mint's Cinnamon does not do that, and thus a lot of running apps do not show up in the app list.

While some logic could be added to the app to be able detect running apps without the help from the DE this creates a large maintenance burden and yields a very brittle and unreliable result.

Fixing this issue upstream should result in Mission Center and similar applications working as expected.

[qwertychouskie]

FWIW, I tried the experimental Wayland session as well, and the issue was still present.

[Tedpac]

This should get attention soon, please. This makes it difficult to use applications to monitor application resource usage. For example, the monitoring applications do not recognize Firefox or Google Chrome as applications, but as traditional system processes...

[MinaPoppins]

I'd like to see this fixed too

[MagmaSlime123]

Another Cinnamon user here, on Fedora's Cinnamon spin. Would be nice to see this fixed.

[nolddor]

Cinnamon user here, from Debian. Any chance to get this fixed?

[Sluchainost]

Another Cinnamon user here on Linux Mint. Still not seeing Chrome as an app, please fix this guys. :'(

[LmEnes]

Waiting for a fix

[JulianGro]

I wonder what actually decides which apps are being shown in Mission Center, since most apps started by Cinnamon do show up. In my case, only Steam is missing.
This is on Cinnamon 6.4.10 on Debian Trixie

I started Firefox ESR and Floorp using the task bar, and they show up a separate apps just fine.
Same thing works when starting them using the start menu.

Steam, Firefox ESR and Cinnamon are using the same cgroup, as far as I can tell:

juliangro@x299-workstation ~> cat /proc/$(pidof -s steam)/cgroup
0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-4.scope
juliangro@x299-workstation ~> cat /proc/$(pidof -s firefox-esr)/cgroup
0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-4.scope
juliangro@x299-workstation ~> cat /proc/$(pidof -s cinnamon)/cgroup
0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-4.scope
juliangro@x299-workstation ~> 

[dstapa]

I wonder what actually decides which apps are being shown in Mission Center, since most apps started by Cinnamon do show up. In my case, only Steam is missing.

For me, only Flatpak apps show up under the Apps list. Native ones don't.

[JulianGro]

In my case, most of the apps shown in Mission Center are not Flatpaks for me. They are just normal Debian packages.

[MagmaSlime123]

I wonder what actually decides which apps are being shown in Mission Center, since most apps started by Cinnamon do show up. In my case, only Steam is missing. This is on Cinnamon 6.4.10 on Debian Trixie I started Firefox ESR and Floorp using the task bar, and they show up a separate apps just fine. Same thing works when starting them using the start menu.

Steam, Firefox ESR and Cinnamon are using the same cgroup, as far as I can tell:

juliangro@x299-workstation ~> cat /proc/$(pidof -s steam)/cgroup
0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-4.scope
juliangro@x299-workstation ~> cat /proc/$(pidof -s firefox-esr)/cgroup
0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-4.scope
juliangro@x299-workstation ~> cat /proc/$(pidof -s cinnamon)/cgroup
0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-4.scope
juliangro@x299-workstation ~>

How are you using MEGAsync? If its the Flatpak, then you're blessed with luck apparently. That thing crashes non-stop if interacting with it at all.

[JulianGro]

How are you using MEGAsync?

I use the official MEGA Debian package.