dbus

A client library for the D-Bus IPC system.

https://github.com/rblaze/haskell-dbus#readme

Version on this page:1.0.1@rev:1
LTS Haskell 23.16:1.3.11
Stackage Nightly 2025-03-27:1.4.0
Latest on Hackage:1.4.0

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Apache-2.0 licensed by John Millikin
Maintained by Andrey Sverdlichenko
This version can be pinned in stack with:dbus-1.0.1@sha256:e6002a8323b9ef2eeff2f4b60d0aab02b67d0f554b76487c3fc1fed834827210,4231

Module documentation for 1.0.1

Used by 1 package in lts-12.26(full list with versions):
credential-store

D-Bus is a simple, message-based protocol for inter-process communication, which allows applications to interact with other parts of the machine and the user's session using remote procedure calls.

D-Bus is a essential part of the modern Linux desktop, where it replaces earlier protocols such as CORBA and DCOP.

This library is an implementation of the D-Bus protocol in Haskell. It can be used to add D-Bus support to Haskell applications, without the awkward interfaces common to foreign bindings.

Example: connect to the session bus, and get a list of active names.

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import Data.List (sort)
import DBus
import DBus.Client

main = do
    client <- connectSession
    //
    -- Request a list of connected clients from the bus
    reply <- call_ client (methodCall "/org/freedesktop/DBus" "org.freedesktop.DBus" "ListNames")
        { methodCallDestination = Just "org.freedesktop.DBus"
        }
    //
    -- org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames() returns a single value, which is
    -- a list of names (here represented as [String])
    let Just names = fromVariant (methodReturnBody reply !! 0)
    //
    -- Print each name on a line, sorted so reserved names are below
    -- temporary names.
    mapM_ putStrLn (sort names)

$ ghc --make list-names.hs
$ ./list-names
:1.0
:1.1
:1.10
:1.106
:1.109
:1.110
ca.desrt.dconf
org.freedesktop.DBus
org.freedesktop.Notifications
org.freedesktop.secrets
org.gnome.ScreenSaver