I assume there's a way to receive dbus signals or method calls from inside a status menu widget, but I'm not finding anything... I'm using python and my widget is being started up by hildon-desktop-python-loader, if that makes a difference.

I found some suggestions here and there that I needed to get a private dbus bus, but I can't seem to hook into, e.g., hd_status_plugin_item_get_dbus_connection.

I too need to be able to do this. My Python script catches System Bus messages no problem when run interactively, but when called by the Status Menu it doesn't see them.

I see that hildon-status-menu runs as 'user', so no obvious problem there.

Anyone used the hildon method named in the above post?