<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: left;">Oh, and meanwhile, is there any other way to avoid this problem? I just figured out that even if you do add this feature, it won't be here until the next release, and I don't know when it will happen. Maybe I can check with ps, and then call sleep() so I'll give Listen time for initializing its dbus manager? </div> <div>2007/4/8, Simon McVittie <<a href="mailto:simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk"> simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; padding-right: 1ex;"> On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 at 19:56:21 +0300, Tomer Haimovich wrote: > I'm trying to write a python program which will tell me what the Listen > music player is currently playing. I've written this code: > > import dbus > > bus = dbus.SessionBus() > proxy_obj = bus.get_object( 'org.gnome.Listen', '/org/gnome/listen' ) > > print proxy_obj.current_playing() > > It works well if Listen is already opened when the get_object method is > called, but if Listen is not opened, the script will automatically open it. D-Bus supports setting a flag for "if the app isn't running, don't start it", but the high level parts of the Python bindings don't support it yet. Could you please file a bug to remind me to fix that omission? I'll be doing some more work on the D-Bus Python bindings in a week or two. Thanks,         Simon _______________________________________________ dbus mailing list <a href="mailto:dbus@lists.freedesktop.org">dbus@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus</a> </blockquote></div> </div>