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Hotplug running user scripts



This is more of a general X11/*nix question, I suppose.  When I plug
in a USB device into my laptop I want hotplug to run a script as a
specific user and I'd like to use GTK+ or Xdialog to prompt for some
information.

What I'm not sure of is how to determine the user's $DISPLAY.

For example, when a USB camera is connected I'd like to pop up a dialog
and ask if the user wants to transfer photos to their $HOME/photos
directory.

I realize there may be more than one $DISPLAY running.  And there can
even be more than one set of display hardware on a given machine.  Not
to mention my knowledge of running an X server is limited.  So I'm not
clear how to accomplish this.

Any suggestions?


-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org



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