Tool for viewing available DBUS messages I can send to an application

Question

Is there a graphical tool or maybe a command-line one that lists all the messages and parameters/arguments that I can send to a DBUS-enabled program?? I really want to try scripting some DBUS things but I can hardly find any documentation for the DBUS capabilities of most applications.

score 59 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 24 '21 at 16:02

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Have you tried d-feet:

sudo apt-get install d-feet

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edited Nov 24 '21 at 16:02

mmoya

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answered Nov 05 '10 at 02:14

alsemyonov

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score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 13 '18 at 16:05

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DBUS Message/Signal Viewer Tools

edited Nov 13 '18 at 16:05

Stephen M -on strike-

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answered Aug 02 '14 at 17:36

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 13 '18 at 21:57

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Another useful D-Bus debugging and profiling tool is Bustle.

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Stephen M -on strike-

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answered Nov 11 '10 at 20:43

mgunes

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From the link, it looks like this cannot list potential commands, as per the question. – Sparhawk Aug 02 '14 at 12:16

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 02 '14 at 12:21

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For Kubuntu users, KDE ships with qdbusviewer-qt4, which can list all available commands to all dbus clients.

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answered Aug 02 '14 at 12:21

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for the newest distributions of kubuntu, use qdbusviewer which is from the qdbus-qt5 package (to access qdbus-qt5) and for the qdbusviewer itself you need qttools5-dev-tools. You can still get the old one in qt4-dev-tools if you must have qt4 compatibility. – osirisgothra Dec 06 '14 at 12:06

score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 14 '12 at 12:43

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I've been using dbus-monitor, which is really useful. It provides a --profile mode, which provides a quick summary of all the signals bouncing around.

answered Jun 14 '12 at 12:43

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I don't think this can list potential commands, as per the question. – Sparhawk Aug 02 '14 at 12:17

Tool for viewing available DBUS messages I can send to an application

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DBUS Message/Signal Viewer Tools