From 93e090469c3c95907a61f97cb5a6b127ea88ab69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Marek=20Marczykowski-G=C3=B3recki?=
 <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 02:03:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] qubes-desktop-run: start the Dbus service (if needed)

Much tidier way to solve the issue, provided by @Unman.

qubesos/qubes-issues#1031
---
 misc/qubes-desktop-run | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/misc/qubes-desktop-run b/misc/qubes-desktop-run
index 14e3f8b..6580060 100755
--- a/misc/qubes-desktop-run
+++ b/misc/qubes-desktop-run
@@ -2,9 +2,17 @@
 
 from gi.repository import Gio
 import sys
+import dbus
 
 def main(myname, desktop, *files):
     launcher = Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new_from_filename(desktop)
+    activatable = launcher.get_boolean('DBusActivatable')
+    if activatable:
+        bus = dbus.SessionBus()
+        service_id = launcher.get_id()
+        # cut the .desktop suffix
+        service_id = service_id[:-8]
+        bus.start_service_by_name(service_id)
     launcher.launch(files, None)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":