#!/usr/bin/python2 import os from gi.repository import Gio, GLib def RemoveArgs(Execline): if isinstance(Execline, list): Execline = ' '.join(Execline) Specials = ["%f", "%F", "%u", "%U", "%d", "%D", "%n", "%N", "%i", "%c", "%k", "%v", "%m", "%M", "STARTED_FROM_MENU=yes"] for spec in Specials: if spec in Execline: Execline = Execline.replace(spec, "") return Execline def dummy_child_watch (pid, status, data): # Do nothing, this is just to ensure we don't double fork # and break pkexec: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675789 pass def gather_pid_callback(appinfo, pid, data): GLib.child_watch_add(pid, dummy_child_watch, None) # Actually execute the command def Execute(cmd , commandCwd=None, desktopFile=None): if desktopFile: launcher = Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new_from_filename(desktopFile) retval = launcher.launch_uris_as_manager(uris=[], launch_context=None, spawn_flags=GLib.SpawnFlags.SEARCH_PATH|GLib.SpawnFlags.DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD, \ user_setup=None, user_setup_data=None, pid_callback=gather_pid_callback, pid_callback_data=None) return retval cwd = os.path.expanduser("~") if commandCwd: tmpCwd = os.path.expanduser(commandCwd) if (os.path.exists(tmpCwd)): cwd = tmpCwd cmd = RemoveArgs(cmd) try: os.chdir(cwd) os.system(cmd + " &") return True except Exception as err: print err return False