-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks - I just gave my 9-year old daughter a digital camera for her birthday, it comes up as a usb storage class device and of course works fine. The problem is I need to set it up suitable for a child to use on her laptop, and the default situation of mounting and unmounting is very poor for that. I did some reading and discovered autofs (there is a tip about it at fedoranews.org), and was able to set this up with a timeout of two seconds, and that works quite well. The autofs service is given a mountpoint and dynamically mounts the given device at the mountpoint *when the mountpoint is touched*. It then umounts the device after the timeout period. I did some further reading and was able to also set up a hotplug script specific to the camera IDs, which generates and deletes a symlink to the mount point when the camera is inserted and removed. That gets me a /mnt/camera link that appears when the camera is inserted, as soon as you touch it, by ls /mnt/camera or anything else, the camera filesystem is mounted, accessed (so in the ls example you see the camera contents listed), and auto-umounted after the two second timeout period. When you pull out the camera the /mnt/camera link is removed. That's really nice. But I want to go for gold and completely automate the process, such that merely plugging in the camera moves all the files in the camera to a specified directory and empties the camera. I can do this with the hotplug shellscript using mv, but there is no feedback about the process and it is critical the camera is not removed too early. What I want to use instead is the KDE kfmclient move command, which brings up a nice dialog with a progress bar that disappears at the end of the move action, same as a konqueror file move. Then you need to wait three seconds, unplug the camera and you're done. If this is possible I will write up a little howto bringing together all the pieces. The problem is that although I can run a test kfmclient instance as root which works... [root@fastcat root]# kfmclient move /mnt/camera/* '/home/agreen/pics' this does not work when running from the hotplug script, presumably because that shell lacks some critical authentication or other information needed to allow X to accept it. (Confession: I try this on an FC2 devel machine, but the question is relevant for all FC versions). I looked around some more late last night, and saw that gPhoto2 has a script for this situation which should be able to run an X11 app from a hotplug script, called usbcam.x11-app. The business end of that boils down to su -l agreen -c "env DISPLAY=:0 HOME=/home/agreen kfmclient copy /mnt/camera/* '/home/agreen/Pics'" trying this out gets me Would you like to enter a security context? [y] n bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified kfmclient: cannot connect to X server :0 My question is then: how can I spawn an X app, preferably with user credentials rather than root, from a hotplug script. - -Andy - -- Find your answer without waiting for replies.... Searchable list archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdn/ijKeDCxMJCTIRAjgVAJ9z1Gyxs2uwwmvn5EXmcg1uLXNJjQCfW1hh qMdd1jaGsJsX4I4lCYLAH9U= =HkDK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
