About calls with Skype

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Alex Tsi <alexhs.tsi at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK I searched and found out a little more.
> there should be three commands to start a call in skype with dbus.
>
> dbus-send --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest='com.Skype.API'
> /com/Skype com.Skype.API.Invoke string:NAME\ ####APPLICATION NAME HERE####
>
> dbus-send --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest='com.Skype.API'
> /com/Skype com.Skype.API.Invoke string:PROTOCOL\ 5
>
> dbus-send --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest='com.Skype.API'
> /com/Skype com.Skype.API.Invoke string:CALL ####CONTACT USERNAME HERE####
>
> However i couldn't do it through terminal. I mean, with first command you give
> the name of your application, and then with the second command it prints an
> error 68, which means access denied. Skype is supposed to start a session dbus
> and associate the name given with the window id i think. However I can't get
> it to work. It works great if i do it through python. Maybe i'm doing
> something wrong..
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IIRC there's a Skype plugin for Kopete, maybe you want to look into
this... Although in any case, I'm unsure if you'll be able to make a
full telepathy backend out of it.

Aleix