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This chapter covers DBus programming with Vala. After a brief overview about the core DBus concepts, we will show how to develop both a DBus client and a DBus server.
Introduction
A typical (UNIX) desktop environment, such as GNOME or KDE, is composed of many cooperating applications and services that allow users to complete their tasks.
Even a single application is sometimes distributed into multiple processes, for example, a backend ...
