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Ride the D-Bus, Control your Linux desktop from the shell

December 01, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 11 months, 4 weeks ago

D-Bus is an IPC mechanism and is a great way for applications to share state information on a modern Linux desktop. Ever wonder how your video player tells your screen-saver to stop jumping in and interrupting the playback, yep D-Bus is how they do it. Learn how to use command line tools to manually connect to the D-Bus and start scripting your graphical desktop components through D-Bus calls from shell scripts

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