qdbus /ScreenSaver Lock fails

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2014-01-03, 22:01:07, Rex Dieter wrote:
> David L wrote:
> > I just upgraded to 13.10 and a script that used to work for me stopped
> > working.  Specifically, I had a script that I ran from a cron job that
> > locked the screen.  The script looks like this:
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > export DISPLAY=:0.0
> > export PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin:$PATH
> > qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock
> > 
> > The same thing happened after upgrading from Mint 15 to Mint 16.
> > 
> > Now I get this error when I use this previously working script from ssh or
> > a cron job:
> > 
> > Service 'org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver' does not exist.
> > 
> > It still works from a local KDE session.
> > 
> > How do I get the old behavior back?  I used it to limit my kids screen
> > time.
> 
> It shouldn't have ever worked if run from outside the kde session.  (ie,
> only processes inside the session have access to the session bus).

Setting DISPLAY should allow that I think.
If I launch qdbus on an ssh session to localhost, I get this

Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: 
Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

If I set DISPLAY=:0 and run qdbus again, it correctly lists the registered 
connections on my session's bus.

@David: just to see if it would work with the actual bus address being 
available:
- in your main session, get the value of $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
- in your ssh session, set that variable to that value and try qdbus again

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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