github-monitor is now forgewatch!

I rebranded my PR monitoring daemon. The old name locked it to a single platform, but the vision has always been broader than that. "forgewatch" better reflects what the app is really about: watching over your code forge, wherever it lives.

Why the rename? Two reasons:

1. It's more general. The architecture doesn't depend on GitHub specifically, and I want to grow it to support GitLab, Gitea, and other forges over time.
2. It's more descriptive. "forgewatch" tells you exactly what it does -- it watches your forge for pull requests and keeps you notified via D-Bus and desktop notifications on Linux.

The daemon is async Python, runs as a systemd user service, and comes with an optional system tray indicator. Give it a look if you're a Linux dev who juggles PRs across repos.

https://github.com/dvoraj75/forgewatch
https://pypi.org/project/forgewatch/

#forgewatch #opensource #python #linux #devtools #foss #github #gitlab #gitea #asyncio #dbus #systemd

#Ubuntu: "We'll comply without a fight and put the #AgeVerification into #dbus."
Users of Linux: "Now installing no-age-dbus."

Tired of missing GitHub PR reviews? I built github-monitor -- a lightweight Linux daemon that watches for PRs assigned to you and sends desktop notifications the moment they land.

Features:
- Desktop notifications with author avatars via notify-send
- System tray indicator with live PR count and clickable PR list
- Runs quietly as a systemd user service -- set it and forget it
- Config reload on SIGHUP, graceful shutdown on SIGTERM

Under the hood:
- Pure async Python (asyncio) -- no threads, no blocking I/O
- aiohttp for GitHub API, dbus-next for session bus IPC
- Daemon exposes live state over D-Bus, indicator connects as a separate process
- Frozen dataclasses, strict mypy, full test coverage

Built with Python 3.13+, packaged with hatchling, managed with uv.

It's open source and I'd love feedback -- whether it's bug reports, feature ideas, or contributions!

https://github.com/dvoraj75/github-monitor

#Python #Linux #OpenSource #GitHub #AsyncPython #DBus #Systemd

If you're in need of a thread-safe, native #C++, implementation of #DBus I recommend DBus-ASIO. (As seen at #FOSDEM!)
https://github.com/dbus-asio/dbus-asio #disclaimer #imadethis

nmrs 2.0.0 ra mắt! Bản binding runtime‑agnostic cho NetworkManager qua DBus, hỗ trợ mọi async runtime và kèm Dockerfile để phát triển dễ dàng. Tác giả mở rộng API, mời cộng đồng đóng góp. Cũng cảm ơn thư viện zbus giúp xây dựng nmrs nhanh chóng. #nmrs #NetworkManager #DBus #OpenSource #Rust #phần_mềm_mã_nguồn_mở #lập_trình

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1qh9ome/nmrs_version_200_release_actually_good_bindings/

If you're in need of a thread-safe, native #C++, implementation of #DBus I recommend DBus-ASIO. (As seen at #FOSDEM!)
https://github.com/dbus-asio/dbus-asio #disclaimer #imadethis

So I decided to make a #Java library for managing #secrets on Linux using the secret service #DBus interface. This could also replace GnomeKeyringKeychainAccess and KDEWalletKeychainAccess with a new KeychainAccess for my favorite app to keep my documents encrypted in the cloud: @cryptomator. The library implements the latest Secret Service API Draft 0.2.

https://github.com/purejava/secret-service

It’s Time To Make A Major Change to D-Bus On Linux https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/its-time-to-make-a-major-change-to-d-bus-on-linux/
#LinuxHacks #SoftwareDevelopment #DBus #Ipc #Linux

J'avais regardé pour hacker ma machine à laver (non connectée, mais avec des trucs qui clignotent et des bips qui me les c*ssent !)
Besoin d'un analyseur logique, de record temps réel, etc
-Mouais...
Mais ces c*ns-là font des machines connectées avec du D-bus (comme ma caméra proprio PTZ que j'ai hackée avec accès ssh maintenu pour des commandes D-Bus, finalement passées via MQTT)
Bon bein : dont Hack ! (elle est bonne 🙂 )
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/29/39c3-hacking-washing-machines/

#Hack #DBus #WashingMachine

I think I'm going to use sdbus instead of QtDBus because the API looks easier to use. Changing standard strings into QStrings and stuff like that is easy to do and I already do that a lot so I'm not worried. Instead of maintaining XML files for the interfaces though, I'm just going to document what the paths are and what types they expect since the "turning XML into code" thing confuses me and I'll wait to do that until I have to do stuff with wayland-scanner.

#dbus #Qt #sdbus #qtdbus

“D-Bus Is A Disgrace To The Linux Desktop”, Rafał ‘Vaxry’ Kucharski (https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278857

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/e62vku/d_bus_is_disgrace_linux_desktop

#Linux #FreeDesktop #DBus #Hyprtavern #GNOME #Programming #CPlusPlus

#dbus #sucks

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks

🐧🔧 Oh boy, another #Linux #enthusiast discovers that software written a mere 20 years ago isn't perfect, 👴 like X from the Jurassic period. The revelation? #DBus is a "disgrace" but should totally infest more apps because, you know, why not spread the #chaos. 🙄🚂
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks #SoftwareDisgrace #TechHumor #RetroSoftware #HackerNews #ngated

So ive been messing around with dbus trying to make it so my videos play in the corner over minecraft without issue...
That's been complicated.
Basically i right click "always on top" once for an instance of a video player but then when the window is closed and reopened it needs to be redone. So im using dbus to send a signal to the window which is a lot more complicated then it sounds...
With the help of my dad tonight I have round out that Mutter is sorta not installed correctly or something...
And even when I fix everything I'm not sure that its gonna work...
So I think what I need to do that may be more likely to work is to make a javascript web page that keeps the video player open so I just right click it to be always on top once and move it around and resize it as I like...
I think that will work...
Maybe less likely to break my system.
I think I need to open it up and put a second ssd because im running out of space and can't update...

#tech #linux #dbus #Wayland #gnome #mutter #pictureinpicture #music #kpop #Firefox #video #programming

Мониторинг SSSD через D-Bus: создаем собственный Ansible-модуль вместо sssctl

Привет, Хабр! Сегодня хочу поделиться опытом того, как я отказался от стандартной утилиты мониторинга SSSD в пользу прямого общения с демоном через D-Bus и создал полнофункциональный Ansible-модуль. Избавиться от зависимости!

https://habr.com/ru/companies/astralinux/articles/965088/

#ansible #freeipa #sssd #dbus #dbusmonitor #activedirectory #ansible_roles #opensource #шина_данных

I'm trying to detect when #KDE desktop becomes not visible and visible again. Basically:

- When user suspends computer, and resumes
- When user switches to different TTY, and returns
- When monitor goes to sleep and wakes-up

So far haven't figured out anything simple, trying to decipher something from the #DBUS with dbus-monitor, it generates so many messages that it's difficult to say if there is already API for these.

#KDE #Linux

If you're in need of a thread-safe, native #C++, implementation of #DBus I recommend DBus-ASIO. (As seen at #FOSDEM!)
https://github.com/dbus-asio/dbus-asio #disclaimer #imadethis

Is there a modern alternative to dbus-monitor? Something where the output is just a little more readable?

#linux #linuxdesktop #dbus #rust

i was about to quickly implement a system tray icon for one of my projects. thought it would be a swift task. turned out things are pretty grim on this one. #gtk dropped the support for system trays in v4, and all other libraries are either outdated or broken (haven't tried qt, but it is too heavy for this small task). ended up writing my own solution.

so, this baby talks with dbus directly, no other dependencies, single-file clib, zig wrapper, mit, works in every environment that supports the freedesktop standard!

https://github.com/charlesrocket/libstray

#dbus #c #zig #xdg

Implementing the Secret Service #API requires to secure the calls to #DBus, as collections can get locked at any time. #Java #coding