mintmenu/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/execute.py
Clement Lefebvre 28c7126bba Fix launching pkexec applications
When launching mintsources, timeshift or an app which Exec field (in the desktop file)
starts with pkexec, nothing happens and the output states:

"Refusing to render service to dead parents."

For some reason this does not happen on fresh LMDE 4 and Mint 19.3 installations,
but it happens on LMDE 3 -> LMDE 4 and 19.1 -> 19.3 upgrades.

Similar bugs were fixed in nemo and cinnamon. Pkexec is known to cause issues
depending on how it's launched.

Specifying DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD in the spawn flags helps here. Afaik it makes it so
we're the parent of the pkexec process during launch. Pkexec fails to launch
otherwise.

gather_pid_callback() does nothing, it's just there to ack the pid callback. Afaik
this helps preventing zombie [defunct] processes when they terminate.
2020-03-31 12:15:48 +01:00

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#!/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 e:
print(e)
return False