#!/bin/bash # Exit out if the same script is already running in the background pidof -sq -o %PPID -x "$(basename "$0")" && exit # Setting read-only variables declare -r datadir="$HOME"/.local/share/fix-zombie-appicons declare -r backup_dir="$datadir"/backup declare -r datafile="$datadir"/tweaked-desktop-files # Desktop files stored here will take precedence over the other ones declare -r home_local_applications_dir="$HOME/.local/share/applications" # Go through each item in $XDG_DATA_DIRS to find all other directories # except home_local_applications_dir where desktop files are stored, and # save these to other_applications_dirs while read -r dir; do full_dir_path=${dir%/}/applications other_applications_dirs+=("$full_dir_path") # Directories inside user's home directory [[ "$full_dir_path" = "$HOME"/* ]] && dirs_inside_user_home+=("$full_dir_path") done < <(echo "$XDG_DATA_DIRS" | tr ':' '\n' | sort -u | grep -vFx "$home_local_applications_dir") declare -r other_applications_dirs dirs_inside_user_home # Create tempfile which is used by the fix_desktop_files function tempfile="$(mktemp)" trap 'rm $tempfile' EXIT # Delete tempfile when the script exits declare -r tempfile # This function will check for new desktop files in home_local_applications_dir and # record them in datafile if the same file is found in any of the other_applications_dirs. detect_new_desktop_files() { for file in "$home_local_applications_dir"/*.desktop; do # This is added as a failsafe to ensure its a file and not a directory [ -d "$file" ] && continue filename=$(basename "$file") # Continue looping if the filename is already recorded in the datafile grep -xq "$filename" "$datafile" && continue # If the same file is present in any of the other_applications_dirs then add its filename to datafile for dir in "${other_applications_dirs[@]}"; do [ -f "$dir/$filename" ] && echo "$filename" >> "$datafile" && break done done } # The following function will: # 1. Go through all the files recorded in datafile and move them to backup_dir if # the same file is not found in other_applications_dirs anymore. # 2. Go through all the bakked up files in backup_dir and move them back to # its original_file_path if the same file is present in any of # the other_applications_dirs. This will not overwrite if a new # file already exists at original_file_path. fix_desktop_files() { # This is added as a failsafe to avoid overwriting datafile in case the file got edited during this period local -r last_modified_time=$(stat -c "%Y" "$datafile") # Copy datafile to tempfile because its not possible to directly edit the file inside a while-read loop [ -f "$datafile" ] && cp "$datafile" "$tempfile" && local -r datafile_copied='true' local -i line_number=0 # Loop through each line in datafile [ "$datafile_copied" = 'true' ] && while IFS='' read -r filename; do line_number+=1 file="$home_local_applications_dir/$filename" # If the file don't exist anymore then remove the line from datafile (as tempfile) and continue looping [ -f "$file" ] || { sed -i "${line_number}d" "$tempfile" && line_number+=-1 ; continue; } # If the same file is not present in any of the other_applications_dirs then move the file to backup_dir unset file_exists for dir in "${other_applications_dirs[@]}"; do [ -f "$dir/$filename" ] && file_exists='true' && break done [ "$file_exists" != 'true' ] && mv "$file" "$backup_dir/$filename.bak" done < "$datafile" # Write the contents from tempfile back to datafile after sorting and removing duplicate lines [ "$datafile_copied" = 'true' ] && [ "$(stat -c '%Y' "$datafile")" = "$last_modified_time" ] && sort -u "$tempfile" > "$datafile" for bakfile in "$backup_dir"/*.desktop.bak; do filename=$(basename "${bakfile%.bak}") original_file_path="$home_local_applications_dir/$filename" # Continue looping if a new file is already present at the original_file_path, # this will prevent the backup from overwriting the new file [ -f "$original_file_path" ] && continue # If the same bakked up file is present in any of the other_applications_dirs then move it back to its original_file_path for dir in "${other_applications_dirs[@]}"; do [ -f "$dir/$filename" ] && mv "$bakfile" "$original_file_path" && break done done } # Create some directories in the user's home directory if they don't already exist mkdir -p "$datadir" "$backup_dir" "$home_local_applications_dir" || { echo "failed to make directories $datadir, $backup_dir & $home_local_applications_dir"; exit 1; } # Try to create dirs_inside_user_home if they don't already exist [ ${#dirs_inside_user_home[@]} -gt 0 ] && mkdir -p "${dirs_inside_user_home[@]}" # Check which directories currently exist on the user's system so that inotifywait can monitor them for changes for dir in "$home_local_applications_dir" "${other_applications_dirs[@]}"; do [ -d "$dir" ] && currently_existing_dirs+=("$dir") done # Both functions will be run once when the script first starts detect_new_desktop_files fix_desktop_files # Inotifywait monitors currently_existing_dirs and the functions are run each time when there is a change in relevant directories while IFS='' read -r line; do if [ "$line" = "$home_local_applications_dir/" ]; then detect_new_desktop_files else fix_desktop_files fi done < <(inotifywait -qm --format '%w' --include '\.desktop$' -e 'move,move_self,create,delete,delete_self,unmount' "${currently_existing_dirs[@]}")