D-Bus

Use D-Bus interface to alter default session type configured a couple of days ago.

Display battery percentage for Bluetooth device using D-Bus.

Enable experimental Bluetooth D-Bus interfaces to get additional information.

Perform a system firmware update.

Start gnome-terminal over SSH using X11 forwarding.

Start interactive shell using systemd machine manager.

Identify a GNOME application that acquired an inhibitor lock and is blocking power-off or reboot operations.

Four different ways to disable Network Manager connectivity checks.

It is a short entry, but a useful one, as it is important to have a basic knowledge of how to schedule system reboot or power it down automatically at specified time.

I have unexpectedly experienced an issue with a couple of broken packages, which was easily solved using debsums utility.

A couple of days ago, I described a couple of interesting ways to interact with KDE using the D-Bus message bus. Today I will show how to set up a semi-intelligent screensaver to just wait during YouTube video playback.

Today I was playing with the D-Bus message bus and KDE so I will describe here a couple of basic actions that can be quickly automated by using shell commands. It shouldn’t matter much but I need to mention that I am using KDE 4.9.5.