[systemd-devel] DBus api of systemd user instance

[Alexandre Detiste]

Hi Ragnar,

I found out and published answer on your Github bug tracker 
https://github.com/rthomsen/kcmsystemd/issues/17 .

It seems as simple a using Qt's buitlin "QDBusConnection::sessionBus()"
(qdbusviewer does that).

Alexandre


Le samedi 7 mars 2015, 08:45:42 Mantas Mikulėnas a écrit :
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Ragnar Thomsen <rthomsen6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey List,
> >
> > Does the user instance of systemd expose a dbus api?
> >
> 
> Yes, that's what `systemctl` uses.
> 
> 
> > If yes, how does one access it?
> >
> 
> Much like the system instance – either over the DBus "user" bus, or over
> the dedicated private socket ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/private).
> 
> ~
> 
> Although, to have the "user" bus, you'll need to obtain user/dbus.service &
> user/dbus.socket from somewhere.
> 
> They were added DBus 1.9 just a few weeks ago, but you can also get them
> separately from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#D-Bus.
> 
> ...and then you might (or might not, I forgot) need to point user at .service
> at it:
> 
> # system/user at .service.d/bus.conf
> [Service]
> Environment=DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=kernel:path=/dev/kdbus/%I-user/bus;unix:path=/run/user/%I/bus
> 
> ~
> 
> So you'll still need to use the private socket (at least as fallback), I
> think.
> 
>