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 <[email protected]> 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 > > <[email protected]> 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
