prefs: Reduce default bus timeout

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/issues/7935

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/prefs-main.cc b/src/prefs-main.cc
index 381dc989..124b46c9 100644
--- a/src/prefs-main.cc
+++ b/src/prefs-main.cc
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@
 #include "terminal-settings-bridge-backend.hh"
 #include "terminal-settings-bridge-generated.h"
 
+// Reduce the default timeout to something that should still always work,
+// but not hang the process for long periods of time if something does
+// go wrong. See issue #7935.
+#define BRIDGE_TIMEOUT 5000 /* ms */
+
 static char* arg_profile_uuid = nullptr;
 static char* arg_hint = nullptr;
 static int arg_bus_fd = -1;
@@ -212,6 +217,8 @@ main(int argc,
       return EXIT_FAILURE;
     }
 
+    g_dbus_proxy_set_default_timeout(G_DBUS_PROXY(bridge), BRIDGE_TIMEOUT);
+
     backend = terminal_settings_bridge_backend_new(bridge);
 
     g_dbus_connection_set_exit_on_close(connection, false);