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dbus ruby script to set away/available status in pidgin
1#!/usr/bin/ruby
2#
3# pidgin_status.rb
4# a d-bus script to set your pidgin status and optional status message
5#
6# Copyright (c) 2008, 2010 joshua stein <jcs@jcs.org>
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31
32require "dbus"
33
34# magic!
35STATUS_AVAILABLE = 2
36STATUS_AWAY = 5
37
38status = case ARGV[0].to_s
39when "away"
40 STATUS_AWAY
41when "available"
42 STATUS_AVAILABLE
43else
44 STDERR.puts "usage: #{$0} <available|away> <optional message>"
45 exit -1
46end
47
48message = ARGV[1]
49
50sb = DBus::SessionBus.instance
51if !sb.proxy.ListNames.first.include?("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService")
52 STDERR.puts "pidgin not running, exiting"
53 exit -1
54end
55
56pd = sb.service("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService")
57pidgin = pd.object("/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
58pidgin.default_iface = "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface"
59
60pidgin.introspect
61
62if (ss = pidgin.PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent()).is_a? Array
63 if pidgin.PurpleSavedstatusGetType(ss.first).first == status &&
64 pidgin.PurpleSavedstatusGetMessage(ss.first).first.to_s == message.to_s
65 # already away or available with this message, don't change
66 exit
67 end
68
69 ps = pidgin.PurpleSavedstatusNew("", status).first
70 pidgin.PurpleSavedstatusSetMessage(ps, message.to_s)
71 pidgin.PurpleSavedstatusActivate(ps)
72end