purple-send(1) User Commands purple-send(1)NAMEpurple-send - calls purple API functions using DBus and prints the
return value.
SYNOPSISpurple-send method-name [type1:value1] [type2:value2] ...
DESCRIPTION
This program calls purple API functions using DBus and prints the
return value. If you are not interested in the return value, use pur‐
ple-send-async. This shell script just invokes dbus-send, see man
dbus-send for how to specify the parameters.
OPTIONS
Use dbus-viewer to get the list of supported functions and their param‐
eters.
Here are some examples:
/usr/bin/purple-send PurpleAccountsFindConnected string: string:prpl-
jabber
/usr/bin/purple-send PurpleAccountsGetAll
/usr/bin/purple-send PurpleCoreQuit
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │communication/im/pidgin │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOpurple-remote(1), purple-send-async(1), purple-url-handler(1),
attributes(5)purple-send Manual, http://pidgin.im/
NOTES
Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007.
SunOS 5.11 02 Apr 2008 purple-send(1)