.TH libdbus-1 3lib "13 April 2016"

.SH "NAME"

libdbus-1, libdbus-glib-1 \- D\-Bus Library and GLib bindings

.SH "DESCRIPTION"

.PP

D\-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one

another\&.  The \fBlibdbus-1\fR library provides low-level API\&.

The \fBdbus-glib-1\fR library provides C-language bindings for using

D\-Bus with a higher-level approach\&.  The higher level approach is possible

because GLib defines a main loop, an object/type system, and an out-of-memory

handling policy (it exits the program)\&.

.PP

D\-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as "new hardware

device added" or "printer queue changed") and a

per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user applications)\&.

Also, the message bus is built on top of a general one-to-one message passing

framework, which can be used by any two apps to communicate directly (without

going through the message bus daemon)\&.

.SH "FILES"

.TP 30

.B /usr/lib/libdbus-1\&.so

D\-Bus library

.TP 30

.B /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1;\&.so

D\-Bus GLib bindings library

.TP 30

.B /usr/share/doc/dbus/

Location of developer documentation

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.PP

\fBdbus-binding-tool\fR(1),

\fBdbus-cleanup-sockets\fR(1),

\fBdbus-daemon\fR(1),

\fBdbus-launch\fR(1),

\fBdbus-monitor\fR(1),

\fBdbus-send\fR(1),

\fBdbus-uuidgen\fR(1),

\fBlibglib-2\&.0\fR(3),

\fBattributes\fR(7),

\fBgnome-interfaces\fR(7)