In the recent time I had to struggle with DBus and its Python implementation. Because it took me a lot of time and nerve, I decided to write down my experiences in the form of this small tutorial, for all those people also struggling with this topic. Besides, there are almost no useful examples to be found on the internet and that has to be changed. Read more…

Ocassionally one wants to give a script or program the opportunity to inform the user of some events – even if it is running hidden or in the background. For these cases KDE uses KNotify (a notification area in the systray). Since D-Bus has replaced DCOP, accessing KNotify has become more difficult. A small python script helps to do the job. Read more…

Everyone knows top, the linux system monitoring tool: it shows cpu load, memory usage, load average, active processes, etc. Unfortunately the graphical interface is not very aesthetic and there are some system specifics which cannot be monitored or discovered using top. Therefore I want to show you four shell programs which aim to extend or replace top’s functionality. Read more…