Install faulthandler for QT bugs, set thread name to program name

template/start.py

@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ We don't want to use all the libraries, including the big Qt one, only to end up
 Same with the tests if jack or nsm are running.
 """
 
+#Give at least some feedback when C libs crash.
+#Will still not work for the common case that PyQt crashes and ends Python.
+#But every bit helps when hunting bugs.
+import faulthandler; faulthandler.enable()
+
+
 from engine.config import *  #includes METADATA only. No other environmental setup is executed.
 from template.qtgui.chooseSessionDirectory import ChooseSessionDirectory
 from template.qtgui.helper import setPaletteAndFont #our error boxes shall look like the rest of the program
@@ -67,6 +73,8 @@ Nuitka complies that in, when make is finished we delete it.
 import sys
 import os
 import os.path
+from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
+from PyQt5 import QtGui
 
 logger.info(f"Python Version {sys.version}")
 
@@ -135,7 +143,9 @@ else:
 
 logger.info("PATHS: {}".format(PATHS))
 
-from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
+#Construct QAppliction before constantsAndCOnfigs, which has the fontDB
+QtGui.QGuiApplication.setDesktopSettingsAware(False)  #We need our own font so the user interface stays predictable
+QtGui.QGuiApplication.setDesktopFileName(PATHS["desktopfile"])
 qtApp = QApplication(sys.argv)
 setPaletteAndFont(qtApp)      
 
@@ -154,7 +164,7 @@ def setProcessName(executableName):
     """From
     https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31132342/change-process-name-while-executing-a-python-script
     """
-    import ctypes
+    import ctypes, ctypes.util
     lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(None)
     prctl = lib.prctl
     prctl.restype = ctypes.c_int
@@ -166,6 +176,27 @@ def setProcessName(executableName):
             raise OSError("prctl result: %d" % result)
     set_proctitle(executableName.encode())
 
+
+    libpthread_path = ctypes.util.find_library("pthread")
+    if not libpthread_path:
+        return
+    
+    libpthread = ctypes.CDLL(libpthread_path)
+    if hasattr(libpthread, "pthread_setname_np"):
+        _pthread_setname_np = libpthread.pthread_setname_np
+
+        _pthread_self = libpthread.pthread_self
+        _pthread_self.argtypes = []
+        _pthread_self.restype = ctypes.c_void_p
+
+        _pthread_setname_np.argtypes = [ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_char_p]
+        _pthread_setname_np.restype = ctypes.c_int
+
+        if _pthread_setname_np is None:
+            return
+     
+        _pthread_setname_np(_pthread_self(), executableName.encode())
+
 def checkNsmOrExit(prettyName):
     """Check for NSM"""
     #NSM changes our cwd to whereever we started new-session-manager from.
@@ -275,7 +306,11 @@ if args.directory:
 
 checkNsmOrExit(METADATA["name"])
 checkJackOrExit(args.mute, METADATA["name"])
-setProcessName(METADATA["shortName"])
+try:
+    #Only cosmetics
+    setProcessName(METADATA["shortName"])
+except:
+    pass
 
 if args.mute:
     """This uses the fact that imports are global and only triggered once.