From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using udev rules to launch an X application
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:23:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809012346.GB6178@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608081904.58354.rosh1182@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:04:57PM -0500, Roshan Mansinghani wrote:
> I have the following line in 10-custom.rules:
>
> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*",SYMLINK="pilot",
> MODE="666", RUN+="su - roshan -c '/usr/bin/jpilot'"
>
> When I connect my palm pilot to my computer and press the hotsync button, udev
> correctly creates a symbolic link /dev/pilot. However, the jpilot
> application is not launched.
>
> As a test, I previously had changed the Run argument to :
>
> RUN+="su - roshan -c 'ls > /tmp/test'"
>
> This worked as expected. Is there anything special that needs to be done when
> the application is an X application rather than a CLI one?
Yes, you need to set up the X environment properly, as you are being
spawned as root, from a daemon. That doesn't make it simple to run X
programs :)
good luck,
greg k-h
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2006-08-09 0:04 Using udev rules to launch an X application Roshan Mansinghani
2006-08-09 1:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-08-09 7:38 ` Kay Sievers
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