On a GNOME Xorg session, to get the return value of method GetIdletime
exposed on DBus, you can either use
$ dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor /org/gnome/Mutter/IdleMonitor/Core org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor.GetIdletime
or
$ gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor --object-path /org/gnome/Mutter/IdleMonitor/Core --method org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor.GetIdletime
I need to retrieve this value by using GDBus API, so I wrote the following code
/*
* Compile with:
* gcc -Wall print_user_idle_time-gnome.c -o print_user_idle_time-gnome `pkg-config --libs gio-2.0 --cflags`
*/
#include <gio/gio.h>
static void
print_user_idle_time (GDBusProxy *proxy)
{
guint64 user_idle_time;
gchar *method = "GetIdletime";
GError *error = NULL;
GVariant *ret = NULL;
ret = g_dbus_proxy_call_sync(proxy,
method,
NULL,
G_DBUS_CALL_FLAGS_NONE, -1,
NULL, &error);
if (!ret) {
g_dbus_error_strip_remote_error (error);
g_print ("GetIdletime failed: %s\n", error->message);
g_error_free (error);
return;
}
user_idle_time = g_variant_get_uint64 (ret);
g_print("%lu\n", user_idle_time);
g_variant_unref (ret);
}
int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
GDBusProxy *proxy = NULL;
gchar *name = "org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor";
gchar *object_path = "/org/gnome/Mutter/IdleMonitor/Core";
gchar *interface_name = "org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor";
/* Create a D-Bus proxy */
proxy = g_dbus_proxy_new_for_bus_sync (G_BUS_TYPE_SYSTEM,
G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_NONE,
NULL,
name,
object_path,
interface_name,
NULL, NULL);
g_assert (proxy != NULL);
print_user_idle_time (proxy);
g_object_unref (proxy);
return 0;
}
But when I run it I get error GetIdletime failed: The name is not activable
. What is wrong? Thank you
org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor
is on the session bus, not the system bus; so you need to use G_BUS_TYPE_SESSION
.