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busctl

Introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus. More information: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/busctl.html.
  • Show all peers on the bus, by their service names:
    busctl list
  • 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}}

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