busctl

linux

Introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus.

Examples (7)

Show all peers on the bus by their service names

busctl

Show process information and credentials of a bus service, a process, or the owner of the bus (if no parameter is specified)

busctl status service|pid

Dump messages being exchanged. If no service is specified, show all messages on the bus

busctl monitor service1 service2 ...

Show an object tree of one or more services (or all services if no service is specified)

busctl tree service1 service2 ...

Show interfaces, methods, properties, and signals of the specified object on the specified service

busctl introspect service path/to/object

Retrieve the current value of one or more object properties

busctl get-property service path/to/object interface_name property_name

Invoke a method and show the response

busctl call service path/to/object interface_name method_name