Reading D-Bus messages

[Michael Albinus]

Hi,

D-Bus messages are arriving to Emacs asynchronously. Unfortunately, there
is no trigger mechanism which notifies the arrival of a message; one must
poll for new incoming messages via dbus_connection_read_write().

The call of this method is wrapped by xd_read_queued_messages() of
dbusbind.c, which is called in gobble_input() (see keyboard.c). D-Bus
messages are converted into Emacs events, and stored via
kbd_buffer_store_event().

This works fine, as long as Emacs runs in a window manager. redisplay()
runs periodically, which includes reading the D-Bus messages.

When Emacs is started in a terminal, this does not work anymore. The
input handling seems to wait for keyboard interrupts and alike, and does
NOT poll anymore, whether there are other incoming events.

How shall xd_read_queued_messages() be activated in such a case?

Best regards, Michael.