#!/usr/bin/env python # # Copyright (c) 2006 Benedikt Meurer # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free # Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) # any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for # more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with # this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple # Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # # ------------------------------------------------------------ # # Simple example of how to communicate with Thunar using the # # org.xfce.Thunar D-BUS interface. # # # # Thunar must be compiled with D-BUS support for this to work. # # ------------------------------------------------------------ # import gtk import dbus import dbus.service if getattr(dbus, 'version', (0,0,0)) >= (0,41,0): import dbus.glib # acquire a reference to the Thunar object bus = dbus.SessionBus() thunar_object = bus.get_object('org.xfce.Thunar', '/org/xfce/FileManager') thunar = dbus.Interface(thunar_object, 'org.xfce.Thunar') # You can now invoke methods on the thunar object, for # example, to terminate a running Thunar instance (just # like Thunar -q), you can use: # # thunar.Terminate() # # or, if you want to open the bulk rename dialog in the # standalone version with an empty file list and /tmp # as default folder for the "Add Files" dialog, use: # # thunar.BulkRename('/tmp', [], True, '', '') # # See the thunar-dbus-service-infos.xml file for the exact # interface definition. # # We just popup the bulk rename dialog to # demonstrate that it works. ;-) thunar.BulkRename('/tmp', [], True, '', '')