Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

[David Pye <d.m.pye@herts.ac.uk>]

Hmm... Good question!

who 
tells you who's logged in...

bash-2.05b$ who
dmp      :0           Mar 23 18:35

and the display/terminal is the middle column. However, I'm not sure how you 
can find out which one is currently being displayed.

Perhaps you could annoy ALL the users by running multiple copies of the 
program (1 for each user, with display set appropriately) so a copy will 
appear on each X display...

David

On Wednesday 02 April 2003 19:12, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to startup digikam, when the camera is plugged in.
> libgphoto2 comes with the example usbcam.x11-app hotplug script,
> but it has two limitations:
>
>       o fixed user
>       o fixed display  (new complication du to the great 'New Session' 
feature)
>
> 'last' is one way to find out who's logged in (when one turns of monthly
> log rotation). I've found no info or command that tells me the active
> virtual console or display. I checked kdms files but only found 
> /var/lib/kdm/A{display}-randomString with (with the cookies I guess).
>
> Is there a kdm setting to turn on to find out what display is the active
> one and if/what user is logged in there?   Other ways to get this info?
>
> Achim
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