I am currently writing a wrapper for a small console program I wrote.
The c program needs a password string as input and because I intend to use it through dmenu and such, I'd like to use a little gtk entry box to enter that string.
However, I have to fork after I get the input (because I'm also handling clipboard stuff which needs deletion after some time) and the window simply won't close until the child process exits.
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from gi.repository import Gtk
import sys
import os
import time
import getpass
HELP_MSG = "foobar [options] <profile>"
class EntryDialog(Gtk.Dialog):
def run(self):
result = super(EntryDialog, self).run()
if result == Gtk.ResponseType.OK:
text = self.entry.get_text()
else:
text = None
return text
def __init__(self):
super(EntryDialog, self).__init__()
entry = Gtk.Entry()
entry.set_visibility(False)
entry.connect("activate",
lambda ent, dlg, resp:
dlg.response(resp),
self,
Gtk.ResponseType.OK)
self.vbox.pack_end(entry, True, True, 0)
self.vbox.show_all()
self.entry = entry
def get_pwd():
if sys.stdin.isatty():
return getpass.getpass()
else:
prompt = EntryDialog()
prompt.connect("destroy", Gtk.main_quit)
passwd = prompt.run()
prompt.destroy()
return passwd
The thought is, that it should close when I hit enter, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing something entirely wrong. The script basically continues like this:
profile = argv[0]
pwd = get_pwd()
if pwd is None:
print(HELP_MSG)
sys.exit()
out = doStuff()
text_to_clipboard(out)
# now fork and sleep!
if os.fork():
sys.exit()
time.sleep(10)
clear_clipboard()
sys.exit(0)