Be noticed when an application start, stop, brought to top
 

Hi there.
Is there a way to be noticed when an application is launching or bringing to the top. (With DBUS or by another way)

When an application is closing?

I would be able de listening dbus in the background and doing somethig when worldclock is launched (brought to the top) or closed for exemple...

Thank you.

PS: Doe's a Dbus messages documentation exist? with ALL signals and method calls available sorted by app path?

Re: Be noticed when an application start, stop, brought to top
 

No idea, but you can use dbus-monitor to see the messages flying around.
In general, the top_application method is called on the application D-Bus object (in this case com.nokia.worldclock, path=/com/nokia/worldclock, interface=com.nokia.worldclock). You can listen for that on the session bus.
For the shutdown, you can listen to the NameOwnerChanged calls as worldclock detaches from the bus.

Re: Be noticed when an application start, stop, brought to top
 

thank you for the answer. i didn't checked it so i waste a lot of time to find all that by myself.

I used nameOwnerChanged signal to know when an app starts or stops.
The problem is that hildon-desktop pre starts some apps and effectively call the top_application method to popup the app

I think i can catch method_calls with low level dbus lib
but im using glib bindings is it possible match whatever we want with glib binding?

An other solution is to disable (temporarily...) prestarting...

Re: Be noticed when an application start, stop, brought to top
 

The NameOwnerChanged signals are broadcast, so you can just connect to them on the D-Bus object (org.freedesktop.DBus, path="/org/freedesktop/DBus", interface="org.freedesktop.DBus") with dbus-glib.