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Get on the D-BUS

Issue 130

From Issue #130
February 2005

Jan 05, 2005  By Robert Love
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Programs, the kernel and even your phone can keep you in touch and make the whole desktop work the way you want. Here's how D-BUS works, and how applications are using it.
Conclusion

D-BUS is a powerful yet simple IPC system that will improve, with luck, the integration and functionality of Linux systems. Users are encouraged to investigate new D-BUS utilizing applications. With this article in hand, D-BUS shouldn't be a scary new dependency, but a shining new feature. The on-line Resources list some interesting applications that use D-BUS. Developers are encouraged to investigate implementing D-BUS support in their applications. There are also some Web sites that provide more information on using D-BUS. Of course, the best reference is existing code, and thankfully there is plenty of that.

Resources for this article: www.linuxjournal.com/article/7926.

Robert Love is a kernel hacker in Novell's Ximian Group and is the author of Linux Kernel Development. Robert is heavily involved in both the Linux kernel and GNOME communities. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Florida, and he enjoys photography.

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Thanks...

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 16:21.

...for the nice article! Now I'll do some googling myself to find out how to use it in practice :-)

Thanks for this material, i was able to write program with this!

Naga Samrat Chowdary, Narla's picture
Submitted by Naga Samrat Chowdary, Narla (not verified) on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 10:41.

Thanks to Robert Love.
I am able to understand this material and i was succeed in writing small program.

Thanks,
Naga Samrat Chowdary, Narla

client side of the example

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 10:08.

If my understanding is correct, I should have a server object providing the method Peel to reply to the method request.Do I register it via "dbus_g_connection_lookup_g_object" and the object information via "void dbus_g_object_type_install_info"

Also when the server object get the Peel method, does it use "void dbus_g_method_return" to retun a message. Thx

Article is USELESS without

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 17:30.

Article is USELESS without examples showing real services or at least a link to where to find actual dbus channels that are present on a dbus-enabled linux system.

Useless? I don't think so...

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 09:08.

Yet another cut-and-paste-code-kiddie looking for someone else to write their code, instead of reading an article to learn concepts and then generate their own code.

I learn from examples

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 02:37.

yes it is not complete.

not true, this article is

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 11:12.

not true,

this article is not complete...

no completed sample for teste :( unable to view something...

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