Interfaces
A collection of commonly available interfaces & projects, showing the wild and diverse usages of D-Bus.
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BlueZ
Linux Bluetooth protocol stack.
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Desktop Notifications
For applications to generate passive popups to notify the user.
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File Manager Interface
Interact with the desktop's file manager.
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Flatpak & portals
Flatpak grants sandboxed applications talk access to names in the org.freedesktop.portal.* prefix. One possible way to use the portal APIs is thus just to make D-Bus calls.
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Geoclue
Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible.
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GNOME
GNOME shell offers a number of D-Bus interfaces.
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Idle Inhibition
AKA org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.
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libvirt-dbus
libvirt-dbus wraps libvirt API to provide a high-level object-oriented API better suited for dbus-based applications.
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MPRIS
The Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification is a standard D-Bus interface which aims to provide a common programmatic API for controlling media players.
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NetworkManager
Make networking configuration and operation as painless and automatic as possible.
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oFono
oFono is a free software project for mobile telephony applications. It is built on 3GPP standards and uses a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications.
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PackageKit
PackageKit is a system designed to make installing and updating software on your computer easier.
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PolicyKit
polkit provides an authorization API intended to be used by privileged programs offering service to unprivileged programs. See the polkit manual page for the system architecture and big picture.
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Power Profiles
The power profiles API is meant to be used by parts of the OS or desktop environment to switch system power profiles based on user choice, or user intent.
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RealtimeKit
RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. realtime scheduling mode) on request.
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Secret Service
The Secrets API allows client applications to store secrets securely using a service running in the user's login session.
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Storaged / udisk
The Storaged project provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks and storage devices.
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Stratis
Easy to use local storage management for Linux.
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systemd
systemd (system and service manager) and its auxiliary daemons expose a number of APIs over D-Bus.
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UPower
UPower is an abstraction for enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history and statistics.
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