Dbus changed?

Reid Rivenburgh reidr at pobox.com
Mon May 25 15:38:02 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:23 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Another thing that's no longer working after upgrading to F11 is a
>> perl program I have that detects the screen being locked.  It
>> basically reads output from this command:
>>
>> my $cmd = "dbus-monitor --session
>> \"type='signal',interface='org.gnome.ScreenSaver',member='SessionIdleChanged'\"";
>>
>> (FYI, I call gdmflexiserver to bring up the gdm login when the
>> screen's locked.)  It never generates any output when I lock the
>> screen now.  Has this changed?  I saw something in the release notes
>> about dbus, but it sounded more like a SElinux thing.
>>
>
> Dbus has not changed, gnome-session does handle the idle state now,
> not gnome-screeensaver.

That would make sense, but I can't find any documentation related to
it.  If I just replace org.gnome.ScreenSaver in the dbus-monitor
command with org.gnome.Session (or SessionManager) it still doesn't
work.  Can you point me in the right direction...?

Thanks,
Reid




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