From f0e170913a51ebb9605163eddafa137053af1ed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Micah Lee <micah@micahflee.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:00:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] set Qt.AA_X11InitThreads in Linux, to prevent horrible
 thread-related crashes

---
 onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py b/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
index 85efbd1d..3cdde4ec 100644
--- a/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
+++ b/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ from PyQt4.QtCore import *
 from PyQt4.QtGui import *
 from PyQt4.QtWebKit import *
 
+class Application(QApplication):
+    def __init__(self):
+        platform = onionshare.get_platform()
+        if platform == 'Tails' or platform == 'Linux':
+            self.setAttribute(Qt.AA_X11InitThreads, True)
+
+        QApplication.__init__(self, sys.argv)
+
 class WebAppThread(QThread):
     def __init__(self, webapp_port):
         QThread.__init__(self)
@@ -80,7 +88,7 @@ def main():
         onionshare.tails_close_port(onionshare_port)
         onionshare.tails_close_port(webapp_port)
 
-    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
+    app = Application()
     app.connect(app, SIGNAL("aboutToQuit()"), shutdown)
 
     # initialize the web app