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Found something cool on Sailfish (qdbus)

Today I was exploring qt dbus methods on my desktop machine using Qt 5 D-Bus Viewer, and it got me wondering if something similar existed for Sailfish.

Searching with zypper found me a package called qt5-qttools-qdbus, which contains the commandline tool qdbus you can use to run dbus commands, and also qdbusviewer:

http://i.imgur.com/doS9kE8.png

A little small, but it still works with a touch screen (would have been great with a resistive touchscreen...).

If you want to run these apps from the commandline without typing the full path, you can add this to your .bashrc file:

Code:

# change PATH to include the path of binaries provided by qt5-qttools-qdbus

# e.g. qdbus and qdbusviewer

PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/qt5/bin/

and then load it:

Code:

source ~/.bashrc

Thought I'd share because it seems like a useful way to discover dbus methods on Sailfish and control apps from scripts - for example, on my desktop I was fiddling around to make Kontact load minimised, which used this command:

Code:

qdbus org.kde.kontact /kontact/MainWindow_1 hide

I'm sure there are similar useful things you could do with this on SFOS.