Rust dbus gnome shell API

A friendly API for interacting with gnome shell, freedesktop and other D-Bus services that are available on Ubuntu.

Features

• Power management
  • Power off
  • Reboot
  • Suspend
• Locales
  • Get x11 layout
• Gnome extensions
  • Get extensions
  • Enable extension
  • Disable extension
  • Uninstall extension
• Gnome shell screenshot
  • Pick color
• Settings
  • Night light
    • Get night light status
    • Set night light status
    • Get night light temperature
    • Set night light temperature

Interfaces

• net.hadess.PowerProfiles: power profiles (power save, balanced, performance)
• org.bluez: bluetooth devices, devices stats
• org.freedesktop.NetworkManager: network manager, wifi, connections
• org.freedesktop.UDisks2: disks, partitions, filesystems
• org.freedesktop.UPower: power management, battery, external devices battery, battery degradation, etc...
• org.a11y.Bus: accessibility bus
• org.freedesktop.FileManager1: file manager (nautilus)
• org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.*: settings daemon

Devtools

• D-Spy: search for and inspect D-Bus services
  

Dbus sources

• What is DBUS? Use cases
• DBUS data types
• CLI DBUS man pages
• DBUS Gnome shell interfaces

Rust bindings

• zbus a beatifully designed abstraction over D-Bus
• zvariant a crate for working with D-Bus types