On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:07 am, Bill Moseley wrote: > 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 Bill, I usually try to find something similar to what I want to do and work out how it does it:) In that spirit, look at: http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html#setting-up-linux-hotplug I use usbcam.x11-app to launch gtkam when I plug in our camera, but you can change it to whatever you want...all this should give you a good starting point:) hth, r:) -- Romana Branden Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.. ITShare SA Inc - http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from donated hardware and opensource software.
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