To terminate the running application in python script

Question

I am writing a simple python script to run and close one flatpak application. I am triggering gedit application using flatpak command but having a hard time to figure out how to quit the application from script itself. Since once the application launches, python scripts waits for the application to terminate and then to exit.

Code:

import os
import sys

def main():
    os.system("flatpak run org.gnome.gedit/x86_64/stable")
    sys.exit()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

In above code I tried sys.exit(), but it doesn't work as it waits for the application to terminate.

Ebrahim Poursadeqi · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-25 02:49:59Z

2

you can try this

import subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen("flatpak run org.gnome.gedit/x86_64/stable")
p.terminate()

Here you can find more information about this

answered Jul 25, 2017 at 2:49

Ebrahim Poursadeqi

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SHASHWAT PANDEY Over a year ago

throwing error: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'flatpak run org.gnome.gedit/x86_64/stable'. Inside " " is the command that needs to be run on terminal in order to run flatpak application.

Ebrahim Poursadeqi Over a year ago

instead of flatpak assign absloute path for example /bin/flatpak or every path it has.If you don't know where it is you can find it with whereis flatpak

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