import gtk import dbus import gobject def handle_reply(msg): print msg def handle_error(e): print str(e) def emit_signal(): #call the emitHelloSignal method async object.emitHelloSignal(dbus_interface="org.designfu.TestService", reply_handler = handle_reply, error_handler = handle_error) return True bus = dbus.SessionBus() object = bus.get_object("org.designfu.TestService","/org/designfu/TestService/object") def hello_signal_handler(hello_string): print ("Received signal and it says: " + hello_string) object.connect_to_signal("HelloSignal", hello_signal_handler, dbus_interface="org.designfu.TestService") gobject.timeout_add(2000, emit_signal) # Tell the remote object to emit the signal gtk.main()