Tool for viewing available DBUS messages I can send to an application

Question

Is there a graphical tool or maybe a command-line one that lists all the messages and parameters/arguments that I can send to a DBUS-enabled program?? I really want to try scripting some DBUS things but I can hardly find any documentation for the DBUS capabilities of most applications.

Answer 1

Have you tried d-feet:

sudo apt-get install d-feet

Homepage

Answer 2

DBUS Message/Signal Viewer Tools

• qdbus-viewer-qt4
• dbus-monitor
• Bustle
• d-feet

Answer 3

Another useful D-Bus debugging and profiling tool is Bustle.

Answer 4

I've been using dbus-monitor, which is really useful. It provides a --profile mode, which provides a quick summary of all the signals bouncing around.

Answer 5

For Kubuntu users, KDE ships with qdbusviewer-qt4, which can list all available commands to all dbus clients.

Answer 6

D-Feet is no longer maintained. D-Feet themselves suggest to use D-Spy (also spelled d-spy).

• GUI-based D-Spy can be used to discover all available D-Bus bus names, interfaces, signals and methods, as well as execute methods and query for properties.
  • Installation via flatpak: flatpak install flathub org.gnome.dspy
• GUI-based Bustle can be used to capture/record ongoing D-Bus activity, including method invocations and emitted signals. After recording, the activity is presented as a sequence diagram.
  • Installation via flatpak: flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Bustle