import dbus import pygtk import gtk class SomeObject(dbus.Object): def __init__(self, service): dbus.Object.__init__(self, "/SomeObject", service) @dbus.method("org.designfu.SampleInterface") def HelloWorld(self, hello_message): print (str(hello_message)) return ["Hello", " from example-service.py"] @dbus.method("org.designfu.SampleInterface") def GetTuple(self): return ("Hello Tuple", " from example-service.py") @dbus.method("org.designfu.SampleInterface") def GetDict(self): return {"first": "Hello Dict", "second": " from example-service.py"} session_bus = dbus.SessionBus() service = dbus.Service("org.designfu.SampleService", bus=session_bus) object = SomeObject(service) gtk.main()