- cross-posted to:
- rust
- cross-posted to:
- rust
I’d like to share a side-project that I finally got to a minimally-useful state this weekend, in case others find it useful
Repository: https://gitlab.com/jokeyrhyme/xdp-hook-rs
Features (as of 0.1.2):
- monitors Location, ScreenCast, and RemoteDesktop portal sessions
- triggers configured scripts/command when these sessions are created/closed
Example use case:
- I’m using
ewwas my status bar across the top of my screen - I wanted to show/hide indicators whenever an application was using the ScreenCast portal (e.g. https://meet.jit.si/ or Zoom, or Teams, or whatever)
- so I’m using
xdp-hookto detect when any application creates a ScreenCast session, and update the state inewwaccordingly so that a blinking widget is displayed/removed
Suggestions and code contributions are welcome :)
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Ooh that’s nice ! Didn’t read the code but could it support generic hooks so that you can catch all portal events to “profile” whatever certain flatpak app is doing?
So far, from what I’ve learned about dbus and xdg-desktop-portal messages, we could definitely have catch-all hooks like that ( https://gitlab.com/jokeyrhyme/xdp-hook-rs/-/issues/2 )
What’s not clear to me yet, however, is how i can trace the ownership of such messages back to the processes that initiated them
dbus sender/receiver IDs are just arbitrary text, and don’t seem to have a reliable relationship with the caller
I do have this on my roadmap though ( https://gitlab.com/jokeyrhyme/xdp-hook-rs#roadmap )
I’m not familiar with dbus, but i had a quick look. I don’t know the difference between a bus and a connection, btu apparently:
- dbus_message_get_sender method on a dbus message provides the unique bus name used for that message
- GetConnectionUnixProcessID function returns the PID of a given connection name
Not sure if the latter would accept the result from the former as a valid parameter, but this SO thread suggested so.
Oh, nice
And it looks like the “zbus” library that I’m using exposes the equivalent functionality: https://docs.rs/zbus/2.1.1/zbus/fdo/struct.DBusProxy.html#method.get_connection_unix_process_id
Is there a good intro document for xdg coding?#
Start with the home page: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/
There are a few “introduction” resources and an FAQ linked there that seem like a good start
The “dbus” part is really the hard part of working with xdg-desktop-portal, at least in my own experience
