Launching an GUI app with udev rule after plugging in usb?

SrErwin · 12-20-2018, 04:29 PM

So Im trying to run gui app with udev but with 0 success,

I read somewhere that i have to find Xauthority file, and put display variable in scripts, Is this right, and if yes could someone write an example script?

Thank you in advance

berndbausch · 12-20-2018, 09:40 PM

You need to be a bit more precise. I do understand that you try to launch a program from a udev rule that puts something on the graphical desktop. Correct?

What exactly are you doing (share the udev rule, any script, any program, etc), and what happens (nothing at all, error message, wrong output, log entries etc)?

What is your environment - OS, GUI, ...?

Here is a question from somebody with a similar problem. It might solve yours. I found it by googling for udev gui.

ondoho · 12-22-2018, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by SrErwin

So Im trying to run gui app with udev but with 0 success,

I read somewhere that i have to find Xauthority file, and put display variable in scripts, Is this right, and if yes could someone write an example script?

you are jumping from zero to 100 with no steps in between. that's potentially harmful.

so, let's start again:

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Originally Posted by SrErwin

So Im trying to run gui app with udev but with 0 success

how exactly?
this is certainly possible, but has some snags.

Quote:

I read somewhere that i have to find Xauthority file, and put display variable in scripts, Is this right, and if yes could someone write an example script?

where? what exactly? in what context?

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you should also tell us more about what you are actually trying to achieve here.
maybe a udev rule isn't the right way to go about it.