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conta

Member

Registered: 2023-10-22

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] How to detect Do not Disturb via DBUS?

Hi there,

for my open-source app, I am trying to detect when my users are in DND to not disturb them. I have this working for KDE and trying to do for XFCE now.

I am in node, so using some dbus library, and would like to do the same for XFCE. I was not able to find where to look for XFCE value so I asked AIs, but no seems to work.

    try {
      const obj = await bus.getProxyObject('org.freedesktop.Notifications', '/org/freedesktop/Notifications')
      const properties = obj.getInterface('org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties')
      const dndEnabled = await properties.Get('org.freedesktop.Notifications', 'Inhibited')
      if (await dndEnabled.value) {
        return true
      }
    } catch (e) {
      // KDE is not running
    }

    try {
      const obj = await bus.getProxyObject('org.xfce.settings.DoNotDisturb', '/org/xfce/settings/DoNotDisturb')
      const properties = obj.getInterface('org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties')
      const dndEnabled = await properties.Get('org.xfce.settings.DoNotDisturb', 'Enabled')
      if (await dndEnabled.value) {
        return true
      }
    } catch (e) {
      // XFCE is not running
    }

Any ideas welcome

Last edited by conta (2023-10-27 06:29:14)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: [SOLVED] How to detect Do not Disturb via DBUS?

Hello and welcome.

Xfce uses xfconf to manage settings, so you could use the Xfconf interface on the session bus to query the value of "/do-not-disturb" in the "xfce4-notifyd" channel. Here is what d-feet says about the method:

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conta

Member

Registered: 2023-10-22

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] How to detect Do not Disturb via DBUS?

Many thanks!

Here's the updated code that works:

    try {
      const obj = await bus.getProxyObject('org.xfce.Xfconf', '/org/xfce/Xfconf')
      const properties = obj.getInterface('org.xfce.Xfconf')
      const dndEnabled = await properties.GetProperty('xfce4-notifyd', '/do-not-disturb')
      if (await dndEnabled.value) {
        return true
      }
    } catch (e) {
      // XFCE is not running
    }