Marble/MarbleDBus

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    Scripting Marble from the shell using D-BUS

    MarbleWidget and MarbleMap provide their full amount of methods as a D-BUS Interface. Therefore you can easily create a shell-script to control Marble using the qdbus command line tool.

    Before you start you need to find out the PID of the Marble process: In your script you can do it like this.

    marble_pid="$(pidof marble)"

    Then you can pass this PID to the actual qdbus call

    qdbus org.kde.marble-$marble_pid /MarbleWidget

    This call returns a list of all the methods that MarbleWidget supports. From this list you can choose the one that you'd like to call, e.g.

    qdbus org.kde.marble-$marble_pid /MarbleWidget org.kde.MarbleWidget.zoomIn

    to zoom into the map. Note that for function calls you shouldn't pass the brackets "()".

    As a convenient tool you can use qdbusviewer to get a graphical list of the interfaces and methods that get provided through D-BUS.


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