#!/usr/bin/python from gi.repository import Gio import sys def launch(desktop, *files): launcher = Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new_from_filename(desktop) try: import dbus if hasattr(launcher, 'get_boolean'): activatable = launcher.get_boolean('DBusActivatable') if activatable: bus = dbus.SessionBus() service_id = launcher.get_id() # cut the .desktop suffix service_id = service_id[:-8] try: bus.start_service_by_name(service_id) except dbus.DBusException: pass return launcher.launch(files, None) except ImportError: pass launcher.launch(files, None) if __name__ == "__main__": launch(*sys.argv[1:])