Enable show/hide of kupfer without keybinder about kupfer HOT 7 CLOSED

Should be a new toggle IMO. You can see that the dbus change as written regresses by not sending all info- display* and timestamp, and these are important in some configurations. The nature of the many desktop environments means that whatever looks like it "works for you" could be buggy other places.

*It's doubtful if display is useful anymore, don't think it is in current gtk3. Timestamp/startup id would be, if it's for the default action when running kupfer.

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This can be handled by simple shell script.
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=se.kaizer.kupfer /interface se.kaizer.kupfer.Listener.ShowHide

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dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=io.github.kupferlauncher /io/github/kupferlauncher io.github.kupferlauncher.Listener.ShowHide

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Thank you! To ensure this will also launch kupfer if it isn't running, and send the show/hide toggle if it is, I ended up with the following script:

#!/usr/bin/bash

# detect if kupfer is running by checking if dbus service is listed
if dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus  /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep io.github.kupferlauncher > /dev/null
then # kupfer running, send showHide signal
  dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=io.github.kupferlauncher /io/github/kupferlauncher io.github.kupferlauncher.Listener.ShowHide
else # kupfer not running, launch kupfer
  kupfer
fi

One can then just setup a keyboard shortcut to this script to their desktop environment's settings, such as in gnome:

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The se.kaizer.kupfer and so on dbus names are long deprecated, you should use the kupferlauncher names

SERVICE="io.github.kupferlauncher"
OBJ="/io/github/kupferlauncher"
IFACE="io.github.kupferlauncher.Listener"

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Huh, I just tested on v323 and while I can get:

dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=se.kaizer.kupfer /interface se.kaizer.kupfer.Listener.ShowHide

to work, the suggested dbus name change to:

dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=io.github.kupferlauncher /interface io.github.kupferlauncher.Listener.ShowHide

does not work. I did run listNames to check the service is running and see both string "io.github.kupferlauncher" and string "se.kaizer.kupfer"

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Thanks! Will update my script in #157 (comment)

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