Bug#785124: Gnome Tweaks Crashes With AutoStart .Desktop Files

[Craig Prevallet]

Your are very likely correct.  

I seem to remember playing around with this in the past to get gnome-
tweaks to load (I'm on Sid) and didn't consider the additional impact.
Thanks for the clarification and insight.

-- 
Craig Prevallet <penguintx at hotmail.com>

On Sun, 2025-12-14 at 11:20 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 at 11:08:22 -0600, Craig Prevallet wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:46:19 -0600 Craig Prevallet
> > <penguintx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > I ran into this (10 year old!) bug as well.
> 
> I don't think you did. Instead, I think you ran into a different bug 
> with the same symptoms. The 10 year old bug is probably obsolete.
> 
> > Ok, I couldn't help myself and had a deeper look.  The following
> > allows
> > gnome-tweaks to open for with items in the autostart folder.
> > 
> > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gtweak/utils.py", line 156
> > 156c156
> > <             self._desktop_file = appinfo.get_filename(appinfo)
> > ---
> > >             self._desktop_file = appinfo.get_filename()
> 
> gnome-tweaks as packaged in testing/unstable does not contain 
> "appinfo.get_filename(appinfo)". It does contain "self._desktop_file
> = 
> appinfo.get_filename()".
> 
> I think what has happened is that you locally modified 
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gtweak/utils.py with a short-term
> workaround 
> for pygobject regression #1117444, and after #1117444 was fixed more 
> correctly in pygobject, the workaround became harmful.
> 
> (The same workaround was proposed upstream in 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-tweaks/-/merge_requests/173 wher
> e I 
> asked for it to be rejected, because I could see that this would
> happen. 
> As a result it was never applied upstream.)
> 
>      smcv