---

Ride the D-Bus, Control Your Linux Desktop From the Shell

[ Thanks to Ahmed Kamal for this
link. ]

“In order to communicate with running applications on
the D-Bus, we need a front end CLI application, or we could use a
language binding (say python bindings). However, we will choose a
CLI application. It is possible to use “dbus-launch”, or the
“qdbus” command part of Qt4. I will be using qdbus since it
demonstrates the point and is faster to use. So, let’s launch
qdbus, and list the running communications buses.”


Complete Story

Get the Free Newsletter!

Subscribe to Developer Insider for top news, trends, & analysis