Rotate Cube

[origin of]

How can i write a small script, that using dbus for rotate cube ??

[mikedee]

Here is a small bash script which you can use.

#!/bin/sh

ROOT_ID=`xwininfo -root | grep id: | awk '{ print $4 }'`

echo "dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/$1/allscreens/$2 org.freedesktop.compiz.$3 string:'root' int32:$ROOT_ID $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 ${10} ${11} ${12} ${13} ${14}"

dbus-send --type=method_call --print-reply \
--dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/$1/allscreens/$2 \
org.freedesktop.compiz.$3 \
string:'root' int32:$ROOT_ID \
$4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 ${10} ${11} ${12} ${13} ${14}

exit 0

To use it, save it somewhere in your path as compiz-dbus and chmod +x it. ie. save to /usr/local/bin/compiz-dbus

This command will rotate the cube right

compiz-dbus rotate rotate_right activate

[origin of]

thanks, but....it doesn't works

manuel@unix:~/Desktop$ ./compiz-dbus rotate rotate_right activate
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.compiz
/org/freedesktop/compiz/rotate/allscreens/rotate_right org.freedesktop.compiz.activate
string:'root' int32:0x4d

Usage: dbus-send [--help] [--system | --session] [--dest=NAME] [--type=TYPE] [--print-reply=(literal)] [--reply-timeout=MSEC] <destination object path> <message name> [contents ...]
./compiz-dbus: 11: /org/freedesktop/compiz/rotate/allscreens/rotate_right: not found
./compiz-dbus: 12: string:root: not found

[mikedee]

It is breaking the command, try copy and pasting this as one line

dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/rotate/allscreens/rotate_right org.freedesktop.compiz.activate string:'root' int32:`xwininfo -root | grep id: | awk '{ print $4 }'`

Edit: I just changed the compiz-dbus script to be more copy & paste friendly

[origin of]

something is changed, but it doesn't works again

manuel@unix:~/Desktop$ ./compiz-dbus rotate rotate_left activate
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/rotate/allscreens/rotate_left org.freedesktop.compiz.activate string:'root' int32:0x4d
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.compiz was not provided by any .service files
manuel@unix:~/Desktop$

[mikedee]

First check that you have dbus running

ps -A | grep dbus

This should output something

If dbus is not running then you need to start it by typing /etc/init.d/dbus start

Then check that you have the dbus plugin loaded, it can be loaded anywhere but I tend to put it after move and resize.

If you are still having problems it is possible that your desktop is not being started by dbus-launch. I need to know if you use KDE or Gnome for that (and what version you use). KDE version 3.5.5 will work automatically and Gnome should be OK too.

[origin of]

i use gnome, and this is the output of the command


manuel@unix:~/Desktop$ ps -A | grep dbus
3744 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
4195 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
4196 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon



EDIT : I added dbus to the list of plugins and it works...thank you very much :D