Script that pings Skype for Linux over DBus and alerts you if it's dead (it tends to just become unresponsive, not crash outright); intended to be run from cron every 5 minutes or so

dbus-wrapper

#!/bin/bash

eval $(tr '\0' '\n' </proc/$(pidof gvfsd)/environ | grep DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS)
eval $(tr '\0' '\n' </proc/$(pidof gvfsd)/environ | grep DISPLAY)

export DISPLAY DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

exec $*

muie-skype

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import dbus
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop

dbus_loop = DBusGMainLoop()
bus = dbus.SessionBus(mainloop=dbus_loop)

try:
    man = bus.get_object('com.Skype.API', '/com/Skype')
    iface = dbus.Interface(man, 'com.Skype.API')
except:
    os.system('/usr/bin/notify-send "Skype is ded"')
    exit(0)

try:
    iface.Invoke('NAME muie-skype')
except:
    os.system('/usr/bin/notify-send "Skype is ded"')