Running an app via shortcut causes future shell invocations to have wrong starting directory.

[M Conrad]

A started process appears to be able to change start up directory for future invocations of other apps.

* Before running dbeaver via menu, mate-terminal shows correct startup in home directory.

* After running dbeaver via [alt]+[f2], mate-terminal still shows correct startup n home directory.

* After running dbeaver via menu, mate-terminal now shows incorrect startup in /usr/share/dbeaver.

*** Potential security issue: It should not be possible for an app to change the startup directory and possibly environment for any subsequent app runs ***

The dbeaver shortcut UI shows:

Type: Application
Name: DBeaver Community
Command: /usr/share/dbeaver/dbeaver
Comment: Universal Database Manager and SQL Client.

The dbeaver desktop entry text shows:

```ini
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=DBeaver Community
GenericName=UniversaL Database Manager
Comment=Universal Database Manager and SQL Client.
Path=/usr/share/dbeaver/
Exec=/usr/share/dbeaver/dbeaver
Icon=/usr/share/dbeaver/dbeaver.png
Categories=IDE;Development
WM_CLASS=DBeaver
StartupWMClass=DBeaver
StartupNotify=true
Keywords=Database;SQL;IDE;JDBC;ODBC;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Oracle;DB2;MariaDB
MimeType=application/sql

```

Environment info:

```
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
```

```
apt-cache policy mate-desktop
mate-desktop:
  Installed: 1.24.0-2
  Candidate: 1.24.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 1.24.0-2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
```

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: mate-desktop 1.24.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-53.59-generic 5.4.65
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-53-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.12
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Sun Nov 15 11:27:21 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-08 (2382 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 16 "petra" - Release amd64 20131126
SourcePackage: mate-desktop
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-25 (204 days ago)

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Hi, thanks for reporting this issue.

Have you reported it to the Mate developers?
If not, please do so and link the bug here.

Thanks!

[M Conrad (mconrad202)]

And where would I do that? I thought reporting against the package would notify upstream if needed?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

The Mate project is here:

https://mate-desktop.org/

Can I make this bug public so that more people can see it?

[M Conrad (mconrad202)]

yes

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:20 AM Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>
wrote:

> The Mate project is here:
>
> https://mate-desktop.org/
>
> Can I make this bug public so that more people can see it?
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1904335
>
> Title:
> Running an app via shortcut causes future shell invocations to have
> wrong starting directory.
>
> Status in mate-desktop package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> A started process appears to be able to change start up directory for
> future invocations of other apps.
>
> * Before running dbeaver via menu, mate-terminal shows correct startup
> in home directory.
>
> * After running dbeaver via [alt]+[f2], mate-terminal still shows
> correct startup n home directory.
>
> * After running dbeaver via menu, mate-terminal now shows incorrect
> startup in /usr/share/dbeaver.
>
> *** Potential security issue: It should not be possible for an app to
> change the startup directory and possibly environment for any
> subsequent app runs ***
>
> The dbeaver shortcut UI shows:
>
> Type: Application
> Name: DBeaver Community
> Command: /usr/share/dbeaver/dbeaver
> Comment: Universal Database Manager and SQL Client.
>
>
> The dbeaver desktop entry text shows:
>
> ```ini
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> Name=DBeaver Community
> GenericName=UniversaL Database Manager
> Comment=Universal Database Manager and SQL Client.
> Path=/usr/share/dbeaver/
> Exec=/usr/share/dbeaver/dbeaver
> Icon=/usr/share/dbeaver/dbeaver.png
> Categories=IDE;Development
> WM_CLASS=DBeaver
> StartupWMClass=DBeaver
> StartupNotify=true
> Keywords=Database;SQL;IDE;JDBC;ODBC;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Oracle;DB2;MariaDB
> MimeType=application/sql
>
> ```
>
> Environment info:
>
> ```
> lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
> Release: 20.04
> ```
>
> ```
> apt-cache policy mate-desktop
> mate-desktop:
> Installed: 1.24.0-2
> Candidate: 1.24.0-2
> Version table:
> *** 1.24.0-2 500
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> ```
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
> Package: mate-desktop 1.24.0-2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-53.59-generic 5.4.65
> Uname: Linux 5.4.0-53-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.12
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
> CurrentDesktop: MATE
> Date: Sun Nov 15 11:27:21 2020
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-08 (2382 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 16 "petra" - Release amd64 20131126
> SourcePackage: mate-desktop
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-25 (204 days ago)
>
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