1 <!DOCTYPE REFENTRY PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems//DTD DocBook V3.0-Based SolBook Subset V2.0//EN" [ 2 <!--ArborText, Inc., 1988-1999, v.4002--> 3 <!ENTITY cmd "libdbus-glib-1"> 4 <!ENTITY % commonents SYSTEM "smancommon.ent"> 5 %commonents; 6 <!ENTITY % booktitles SYSTEM "booktitles.ent"> 7 %booktitles; 8 <!ENTITY suncopy "Copyright (c) 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved."> 9 ]> 10 <?Pub UDT _bookmark _target> 11 <?Pub Inc> 12 <refentry id="libdbus-glib-1-3"> 13 <!-- %Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI; --> 14 <refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum> 15 <refmiscinfo class="date">20 Nov 2007</refmiscinfo> 16 <refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo> 17 <refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo> 18 <refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo> 19 <refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo> 20 </refmeta> 21 <indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary> 22 D\-Bus GLib bindings 23 </primary></indexterm> 24 <refnamediv id="libdbus-glib-1-3-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname><refpurpose> 25 D\-Bus GLib bindings 26 </refpurpose></refnamediv> 27 <refsect1 id="libdbus-glib-1-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title> 28 <para> 29 D\-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one 30 another. 31 </para> 32 <para> 33 D\-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as "new hardware device 34 added" or "printer queue changed") and a per-user-login-session daemon (for 35 general IPC needs among user applications). Also, the message bus is built on 36 top of a general one-to-one message passing framework, which can be used by any 37 two apps to communicate directly (without going through the message bus 38 daemon). 39 </para> 40 <para> 41 The D\-Bus API isn't finished yet, and the design is by no means set in stone. 42 One of our main goals is for lots of projects to use it, so if you wouldn't use 43 it, by all means mail us and say why - design, licensing, indentation style, we 44 would rather know than not know. 45 </para> 46 </refsect1> 47 <refsect1 id="libdbus-glib-1-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title> 48 <para>The following files are used by this application:</para> 49 <variablelist termlength="wholeline"> 50 <varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename> </term><listitem> 51 <para>D\-Bus GLib bindings library</para> 52 </listitem></varlistentry> 53 <varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/dbus-glib</filename> </term><listitem> 54 <para>Location of developer documentation</para> 55 </listitem></varlistentry> 56 </variablelist></refsect1> 57 <refsect1 id="libdbus-glib-1-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title> 58 <para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><citerefentry> 59 <refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink> 60 for descriptions of the following attributes:</para> 61 <informaltable frame="all"> 62 <tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*"> 63 <colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*"> 64 <thead> 65 <row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center" 66 valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row> 67 </thead> 68 <tbody> 69 <row><entry> 70 <para> 71 Availability 72 </para> 73 </entry><entry> 74 <para> 75 SUNWdbus-bindings 76 </para> 77 </entry></row><row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"> 78 <para> 79 Interface stability 80 </para> 81 </entry><entry colname="COLSPEC1"> 82 <para> 83 Volatile 84 </para> 85 </entry></row></tbody> </tgroup> 86 </informaltable> 87 </refsect1> 88 <refsect1 id="libdbus-glib-1-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title> 89 <!--Reference to another man page--> 90 <!--Reference to a Help manual--> 91 <!--Reference to a book.--> 92 <para> 93 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-cleanup-sockets</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 94 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 95 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-launch</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 96 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-monitor</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 97 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-send</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 98 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-uuidgen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 99 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 100 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> 101 </para> 102 </refsect1> 103 <refsect1 id="libdbus-glib-1-3-note"><title>¬e-tt;</title> 104 <para>Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.</para> 105 </refsect1> 106 </refentry> 107