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+#!/bin/sh
+# ./gtk-broadway-run.sh PROGRAM ARGS...
+# Starts PROGRAM under Gtk with the Broadway backend.
+#
+# This is meant as a more reliable replacement to xvfb-run
+# when building SciTECO on headless systems.
+# WARNING: This will block indefinitely when letting
+# SciTECO (or any Gtk app) start up to its UI.
+set -e
+
+export GDK_BACKEND=broadway
+
+# mktemp would create the file already
+BROADWAY_SOCKET=/tmp/gtk-broadway.sock.$$
+
+broadwayd --unixsocket $BROADWAY_SOCKET >/dev/null &
+BROADWAY_PID=$!
+trap "kill $BROADWAY_PID; rm -f $BROADWAY_SOCKET" EXIT
+
+# Wait for broadway to start up.
+# broadwayd might also die in the meantime.
+while kill -0 $BROADWAY_PID >/dev/null && [ ! -S $BROADWAY_SOCKET ]; do
+	# `sleep 0.1` might be unportable.
+	sleep 0.1 || sleep 1
+done
+
+# We don't exec, so we can still clean up with the trap afterwards.
+"$@"