D-Bus Interface (dbus_api.py)

D-Bus API for controlling QuickTile

class QuickTile(bus, commands, winman)

D-Bus endpoint definition

Parameters:

• bus (SessionBus) – The connection on which to export this object. See the dbus.service.Object documentation for details.

• commands (CommandRegistry)

• winman (WindowManager)

doCommand(command)

Execute a QuickTile tiling command

Parameters:

command (str) – The name of the command to attempt to run.

Return type:

bool

Returns:

Whether command was found in the registry.

init(commands, winman)

Initialize the DBus backend

This handles hooking D-Bus into the Glib main loop, connecting to the session bus, and creating a QuickTile instance.

Parameters:

• commands (CommandRegistry)

• winman (WindowManager)

Return type:

Optional[Tuple[BusName, QuickTile]]