How to know the application owned a bus name

Ray Strode halfline at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 18:23:46 PDT 2009


Hi,

> I'm using dbus-monitor to look at messages among applications. But some
> messages have bus names like ":1.7" without knowing which application
> owns them. Is there any tool help to get the owner?

You may find the programs d-feet useful.  I don't think it has
dbus-monitor like functionality, but it does show all clients on the
bus (so it would say which program is :1.7 for instance) and allows
you to run methods on them in a way that's a little easier than
dbus-send.

--Ray


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