import dbus import pygtk import gtk class SomeObject(dbus.Object): def __init__(self, service): dbus.Object.__init__(self, "/SomeObject", service, [self.HelloWorld]) def HelloWorld(self, message, hello_message): print (str(hello_message)) return ["Hello", " from example-service.py"] session_bus = dbus.SessionBus() service = dbus.Service("org.designfu.SampleService", bus=session_bus) object = SomeObject(service) gtk.main()