view libpurple/plugins/startup.py @ 16795:db06d4a18246

Add a python script plugins/startup.py which will first check whether a client with the same home directory is running. If so, it will do a purple_blist_show() and exit. Otherwise, it will start the client. Usage example: startup.py pidgin -c /tmp/ I wanted to do a purple_notify_ to notify the user. But because we can't/ don't expose functions with callbacks as parameters to dbus, that was not possible.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Makes sure only one purple instance is running
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import sys
import dbus
import os

home = os.path.expanduser('~/.purple/')
for arg in range(1, len(sys.argv[1:])):
	if sys.argv[arg] == "-c":
		home = os.path.expanduser(sys.argv[arg + 1])
		break

bus = dbus.SessionBus()

try:
	obj = bus.get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
	purple = dbus.Interface(obj, "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface")
	userdir = purple.PurpleUserDir()
	if not os.path.isabs(userdir):
		userdir = os.path.join(purple.PurpleHomeDir(), userdir)
	if home == userdir:
		print "Already running."
		purple.PurpleBlistShow()
	else:
		print "Starting client from a different home directory."
		raise
except:
	os.execlp(sys.argv[1], " ".join(sys.argv[2:]))