D-Bus

Also known as dbus, DBus, Desktop Bus

D-Bus (short for "Desktop Bus"

Key facts

Software.name: Desktop Bus
Software.developer: freedesktop.org et al.
Software.programming_language: C
Software.operating_system: Cross-platform
Software.replaces: CORBADCOP
Software.license: GPLv2+ or AFL 2.1

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
Image: D-Feet.png

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software version identifier: 1.16.2
source code repository URL: github.com/freedesktop/dbus
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/dbus
mailing list archive URL: lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus

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Article

16 sections

Contents

Overview
D-Bus specification
Bus model
Object model
Communications model
Internals
History and adoption
Implementations
{{Anchor|LIBDBUS}} libdbus
GDBus
sd-bus
{{Anchor|KDBUS}} kdbus
Language bindings
See also
References
External links

D-Bus (short for "Desktop Bus") is a message-oriented middleware mechanism that allows communication between multiple processes running concurrently on the same machine. D-Bus was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project, initiated by GNOME developer Havoc Pennington to standardize services provided by Linux desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE Plasma.

The freedesktop.org project also developed a free and open-source software library called libdbus, as a reference implementation of the specification. This library is not D-Bus itself, as other implementations of the D-Bus specification also exist, such as GDBus (GNOME), QtDBus (Qt/KDE), dbus-java and sd-bus (part of systemd).