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D-Bus

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…

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Developer
freedesktop.org et al.
License
GPLv2+ or AFL 2.1
Operating system
Cross-platform
Predecessor
CORBA DCOP
Release
November 2006; 19 years ago (2006-11)
Repository
gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus

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D-Bus specification

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D-Bus

Nodes85
Edges84
Triples106
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023529
Components1

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D-Bus

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related to history · 19
D-Bus → Alex Larsson, An, Anders Carlsson, API, Bonobo, DCOP, GNOME, Havoc Pennington, Heavily, In GNOME, It, KDE, November, POSIX, Qt, Red Hat, The, Windows, Xfce
related to Object model · 12
D-Bus → An, Any, Because, Clients, For, In D-Bus, Methods, OOP, That, The, These, USB
related to Bus model · 8
D-Bus → An, Bus, Every, NetworkManager, There, This, Unique, When
related to overview · 8
D-Bus → CORBA, DCOP, GNOME, IPC, KDE Linux, Processes, The, These
related to GDBus · 7
D-Bus → GDBus, GIO, GLib, GNOME, GTK, MATE Desktop, Xfce
related to Communications model · 6
D-Bus → In, IPC, Messages, RPC, The, To
related to Language bindings · 5
D-Bus → Java, Perl, Ruby, Rust, Several
related to Internals · 4
D-Bus → Another, In, Most, This
related to sd-bus · 4
D-Bus → API, BMW, By, In
related to External links · 3
D-Bus → Bus, Bus TutorialDBus Overview, Freedesktop

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bus object process name also used connection processes message freedesktop org service desktop library libdbus services daemon communications specification messages

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
D-BusDeveloperfreedesktop.org et al.1.00infobox
D-BusLicenseGPLv2+ or AFL 2.11.00infobox
D-BusOperating systemCross-platform1.00infobox
D-BusPredecessorCORBA DCOP1.00infobox
D-BusReleaseNovember 2006; 19 years ago (2006-11)1.00infobox
D-BusRepositorygitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus1.00infobox
D-BusStable release1.16.2 / 27 February 2025; 17 months ago (27 February 2025)1.00infobox
D-BusTypeIPC daemon1.00infobox
D-BusTypeLinux on the desktop1.00infobox
D-BusWebsitewww.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/1.00infobox
D-BusWritten inC1.00infobox
GNOMEinstance ofinitiated by GNOME developer Havoc Pennington to standardize services provided by Linux desktop environments0.80text

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