KYSDKDBUS(8)

📦 version 3.0.1.4, in arch rolling, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 KYSDKDBUS(8) — the KYLIN SDK System Information D-Bus Service 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about kysdkdbus from the System Administration Utilities corner of the manual. this one's a whole vibe. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

kysdkdbus — KYLIN SDK System Information D-Bus Service

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kysdkdbus

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, no drama. she just exists. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so kysdkdbus is a comprehensive D-Bus service in the KYLIN SDK system, and her whole job is handing out system hardware and software info like she's running the most organized group chat on the machine. 📲

she exposes a bunch of interfaces through D-Bus so other applications can come through and ask about stuff like disk, CPU, network, BIOS, motherboard, USB devices, memory, processes, printers, and honestly more. she is booked and busy.

all of it lives under the com.kylin.kysdk namespace, which is basically her ✨aesthetic✨ — one centralized way to get system info through inter-process communication. no cap, that's the whole point: IPC. 💅

🎀 D-BUS INTERFACES 🎀

here's the roster. every single one of them. no skipping, bestie, I would never do you like that.

  • com.kylin.kysdk.disk — disk info, and she has receipts:
    • Disk list
    • Sector size
    • Total size
    • Model and serial number
    • Partition information
    • Disk type (HDD/SSD)
    • Firmware version
    • Volume labels
    • Partition table type
    • Disk geometry
  • com.kylin.kysdk.cpuinfo — everything about your CPU, the main character of your machine:
    • Architecture
    • Vendor
    • Model
    • Frequency
    • Core count
    • Virtualization support
    • Thread count
  • com.kylin.kysdk.netcard — network card tea:
    • Network card list
    • Link status
    • MAC address
    • IP addresses (IPv4/IPv6)
    • Card type (wired/wireless)
    • Vendor and product information
  • com.kylin.kysdk.bios — short and sweet:
    • Vendor
    • Version
  • com.kylin.kysdk.mainboard — the motherboard's whole identity:
    • Model name
    • Manufacturing date
    • Serial number
    • Vendor
  • com.kylin.kysdk.peripheralsenum — who's plugged in rn 🔌:
    • Connected USB devices
    • Product and manufacturer names
    • Device details (PID, VID, serial number)
  • com.kylin.kysdk.display — the display adapter lore, and it is extensive:
    • Vendor
    • Product model
    • Description
    • Physical ID
    • Bus information
    • Version
    • Data width
    • Clock frequency
    • Capabilities
    • Configuration
    • Resources
  • com.kylin.kysdk.packageinfo — package management things:
    • Installed package list
    • Package versions
    • Installation status
  • com.kylin.kysdk.resource — how's the machine feeling:
    • Memory statistics (total, usage, available, free)
    • Swap space information
    • CPU usage
    • System uptime
  • com.kylin.kysdk.process — the process gossip:
    • CPU and memory usage for specific processes
    • Process status
    • Port usage
    • Start and running time
    • Command and user information
    • Process lists
  • com.kylin.kysdk.sysinfo — the big one, the whole autobiography:
    • System architecture
    • OS name and version
    • Activation status
    • Serial number
    • Kernel version
    • User information
    • Project names
    • Product features
    • Virtualization type
    • Cloud platform type
    • System form (immutable/non-immutable)
    • GRUB menu information
  • com.kylin.kysdk.net — network stuff beyond the card:
    • Port status
    • Multiple port statistics
    • Gateway information
    • Firewall state
    • Process-port associations
  • com.kylin.kysdk.runinfo — the live-updating story, real-time edition:
    • Network speed
    • Disk rotation rate
    • CPU and disk temperature
    • CPU performance counters
    • CPU queue length
  • com.kylin.kysdk.gps — location info, served up in JSON format. 📍
  • com.kylin.kysdk.print — printer wrangling:
    • Printer lists (all/available)
    • Print job management
    • Printer status
    • Remote file printing
  • com.kylin.kysdk.accounts — account management functions:
    • Password changing

🧚 ARCHITECTURE 🧚

architecturally? she's built as multiple C++ classes that inherit from QObject and include D-Bus interface definitions. every class is matched to one specific system component and exposes its methods over D-Bus. very "each friend in the group chat has one job" energy. 🫶

and the way she actually reaches the hardware? dynamic library loading via dlopen/dlsym, tapping into the underlying system information libraries. flexible, modular, iconic. that's the architecture, periodt.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /usr/bin/kysdkdbus — Executable file path

💜 DEPENDENCIES 💜

she does not do this alone. her support system:

  • libkysysinfo — System information library
  • libkydiskinfo — Disk information library
  • libkync — Network card information library
  • libkybios — BIOS information library
  • libkyboard — Motherboard information library
  • libkyusb — USB device information library
  • libkycpu — CPU information library
  • libkydisplay — Display information library
  • libkynetinfo — Network information library
  • libkyrtinfo — Real-time information library
  • libkyprocess — Process information library
  • libkyprinter — Printer information library
  • libkylocation — Location information library
  • libkypackages — Package information library
  • libkyaccounts — Account management library
  • Qt D-Bus — For D-Bus communication implementation

⭐ USAGE ⭐

real talk: this service usually runs as a background daemon and just responds to D-Bus method calls. it does not usually need you or your admin bestie to interact with it directly. she's low maintenance like that. 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

KylinSoft Co., Ltd.

Copyright (C) 2023-2025, KylinSoft Co., Ltd.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

okay so that warranty bit is not a joke, bestie — there is literally no warranty, so don't come for her if something breaks. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

dbus-daemon(1), systemctl(1), lshw(1), lsblk(1), lspci(1), lsusb(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie. ✨ Version 1.0, dated 2025, straight out of the KYSDKDBUS(8) manual. mwah, go query something. 💖🎀🦋

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