ft-floatd: a launch for a missing app no longer kills the control socket (#16)

Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new() returns NULL for a desktop file that doesn't
exist, and PyGObject raises TypeError ("constructor returned NULL")
rather than returning None, so launch()'s `if info is None` never ran.
The exception escaped the control socket's GLib callback, GLib dropped
the watch, and ft-floatd stopped answering everything: the float key,
dock, Launch as Standalone, and profiles, until the desktop restarted.

Found on the Frame (2026-10-02): a profile saved with RustDesk's
Flatpak open records its window's app id, com.carriez.flutter_hbb,
which has no desktop file (the Flatpak's is com.rustdesk.RustDesk).
`ft-layout use` on that profile asked ft-floatd to launch it, and
ft-floatd went silent. With this, that launch replies "error no app
com.carriez.flutter_hbb" and the profile's other apps open.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Patrick McDavidandClaude Opus 5.5 authored and GitHub committed 2026-10-02 21:12:49 -06:00
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@@ -745,7 +745,10 @@ class Daemon:
Returns (reply, pid or None)."""
if app:
app = app.removesuffix(".desktop")
info = Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new(app + ".desktop")
try:
info = Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new(app + ".desktop")
except TypeError: # PyGObject raises for the NULL a missing desktop file returns
info = None
if info is None:
return f"error no app {app}", None
pids = []