nixpkgs/pkgs/desktops/plasma-5/kwin/0001-NixOS-Unwrap-executable-name-for-.desktop-search.patch
Samuel Dionne-Riel 1ba2080046 kwin: Unwrap executable name for desktop file search
KWin for wayland uses the `.desktop` file to determine whether a process
is allowed to access some wayland services.

This would be fine if there was a stable interface to map a process to a
`.desktop` file.

Since there is no such interface, they are scanning `.desktop` files for
one where the executable path matches the resolved file "exe" from
`/proc/$PID/exe`.

This would be fine, if we didn't wrap many (most?) KDE/Plasma binaries.

Since we are wrapping binaries, the `exe` symlink points to a wrapped
binary. No `.desktop` file will match for the wrapped binary.

The solution here is to peel away at the `.${name}-wrapped` layers until
we have the intended name for the executable.

It is expected that no `.desktop` file will ever point to a wrapped
binary.
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From 29ec6fada935ef966e5859082435ed57daa9522d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Dionne-Riel <samuel@dionne-riel.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:03:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [NixOS] Unwrap executable name for .desktop search
Why is this necessary even though -a "$0" is used in the wrapper?
Because it's completely bypassing argv0! This looks at the executable
file in-use according to the kernel!
Wrappers cannot affect the `/proc/.../exe` symlink!
---
service_utils.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/service_utils.h b/service_utils.h
index 8a70c1fad..6674f553b 100644
--- a/service_utils.h
+++ b/service_utils.h
@@ -26,8 +26,34 @@ namespace KWin
const static QString s_waylandInterfaceName = QStringLiteral("X-KDE-Wayland-Interfaces");
const static QString s_dbusRestrictedInterfaceName = QStringLiteral("X-KDE-DBUS-Restricted-Interfaces");
-static QStringList fetchProcessServiceField(const QString &executablePath, const QString &fieldName)
+static QStringList fetchProcessServiceField(const QString &in_executablePath, const QString &fieldName)
{
+ // !! Start NixOS fix
+ // NixOS fixes many packaging issues through "wrapper" scripts that manipulates the environment or does
+ // miscellaneous trickeries and mischievous things to make the programs work.
+ // In turn, programs often employs different mischievous schemes and trickeries to do *other things.
+ // It often happens that they conflict.
+ // Here, `kwin` tries to detect the .desktop file for a given process.
+ // `kwin` followed the process `/proc/.../exe` up to the actual binary running.
+ // It normally would be fine, e.g. /usr/bin/foobar is what's in the desktop file.
+ // But it's not the truth here! It's extremely likely the resolved path is /nix/store/.../bin/.foobar-wrapped
+ // rather than what the desktop file points to, something like /nix/store/.../bin/foobar !!
+ // Since the wrappers for Nixpkgs *always* prepend a dot and append -wrapped, we assume here that we can keep
+ // `/^(.*)\/\.([^/]*)-wrapped/` until the (equivalent) regex does not match.
+ // This should canonicalize the wrapper name to the expected name to look for in the desktop file.
+
+ // Use a copy of the const string
+ QString executablePath(in_executablePath);
+
+ // While the parts needed are present, "unwrap" one layer of wrapper names.
+ while (executablePath.endsWith("-wrapped") && executablePath[executablePath.lastIndexOf("/")+1] == QChar('.')) {
+ // Approximately equivalent to s/-wrapped$//
+ executablePath.remove(executablePath.length() - 8, 8);
+ // Approximately equivalent to s;/\.;/;
+ executablePath.remove(executablePath.lastIndexOf("/")+1, 1);
+ }
+ // !! End NixOS fix
+
// needed to be able to use the logging category in a header static function
static QLoggingCategory KWIN_UTILS ("KWIN_UTILS", QtWarningMsg);
const auto servicesFound = KApplicationTrader::query([&executablePath] (const KService::Ptr &service) {
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