From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rules and RUN key
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:18:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051122231848.GB21094@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511230001.45163.ml@deprecated.it>
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:01:29AM +0100, Mangus wrote:
> Hi all, I'm trying to study the RUN key of udev rules, but I really don't
> understand why this rule doesn't work..
>
> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Sony DSC", KERNEL="sda1", ACTION="add",
> SYMLINK+="digitalcamera", RUN="/opt/kde/bin/digikam"
You don't want to run root level programs from udev to show up in your
desktop session. This also can't work, cause digikam has no X display.
Usually a process in your user session subscribes to device events from
HAL and starts applications as the logged-in user.
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-22 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-22 23:01 rules and RUN key Mangus
2005-11-22 23:18 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-11-23 11:26 ` Harald Hoyer
2005-11-23 18:44 ` Mangus
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