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2010-03-10 , 00:28
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Hello,

I would like to know which is the best way to run a script (my own script) on a specific dbus event.
It requires me to make a daemon ?
 

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2010-03-10 , 11:09
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Hello,

I would like to know which is the best way to run a script (my own script) on a specific dbus event.
It requires me to make a daemon ?
with python scripts , you could use the QT/GTK dbus wrappers to listen to the dbus signals , to perform what you want perhaps.

or you could write a simple daemon to do the same
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2010-03-10 , 11:49
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with python scripts , you could use the QT/GTK dbus wrappers to listen to the dbus signals , to perform what you want perhaps.

or you could write a simple daemon to do the same
Yes, but to make my app listen on dbus signals requires that my app has to be (always) running and this is not what I want. I only need my application up and running only on a specific dbus event and I hope I could do this without writing a daemon.


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Yes, but to make my app listen on dbus signals requires that my app has to be (always) running and this is not what I want. I only need my application up and running only on a specific dbus event and I hope I could do this without writing a daemon.

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somebody has to listen to the dbus event , no ?
and to add that the app/script will be in an almost idle state until the signal is recieved.
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somebody has to listen to the dbus event , no ?
and to add that the app/script will be in an almost idle state until the signal is recieved.
Yes I think so
But, I'm wondering, is there someone else who listen to dbus event? maybe a system daemon, and use this directly would be better (or maybe I'm simply wrong).
 
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But, I'm wondering, is there someone else who listen to dbus event? maybe a system daemon, and use this directly would be better (or maybe I'm simply wrong).
No
Dont worry you wont load the system by listening to the dbus.Thats the whole purpose of having dbus so apps can communicate with other apps/middleware, add yours as well
let me know if you find something else
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Dont worry you wont load the system by listening to the dbus.Thats the whole purpose of having dbus so apps can communicate with other apps/middleware, add yours as well
let me know if you find something else
Uhm... ok I will try so.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
 

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You should look at the programs dbus-scripts and dbus-scripts-settings which are available in extras-devel. dbus-scripts is a daemon that listens on the dbus and runs scripts when specific events happen.
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