Geany since its the only cross-platform text editor that I like. Cross-platform being very important to me, I mostly use Linux.

Your right running the love binary package instead of the AppImage does not have the secondary process. Unfortunately I don't know much about AppImage either. Running other AppImage applications does have a second process appear, however it closes when the main window does. Seems something specifica...

Seems the issue has something to do with launching the project from the 'love.desktop' file with an argument. Launching directly from terminal does not have this issue, odd behavior. EDIT: Here is the memory dump of the duplicate process, this process is created when running love.AppImage directly B...

Tried disabling various modules then disabled all but window and event, issue persisted. Where is the source for the default project so I can pack it into a love and try running it?

Seems running default 'love' without a project does not have this issue but running a 'game.love' or 'love <folder>' does. I am using a completely blank 'main.lua' for testing, running other love games also does this.

When launching LOVE projects on linux a second process is created also called 'love'. This additional process remains after closing the game window. These additional processes build up in the background until manually terminated. As you can see the processes only consume a little bit of memory and n...

I'd suggest the IO library: https://www.lua.org/pil/21.2.2.html