Comments on: Gnome: 2 questions that go unanswered

By: Quentin Moser

Quentin Moser — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:21:04 +0000

For your first question, would something like this work?

#!/bin/sh

su -c 'DISPLAY=:0 [mycommand]' [myuser]

There's probably also an obscure way of finding "The user currently logged on :0" to make it cleaner, but I honestly have no idea.

By: lilac

lilac — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:39:51 +0000

1: NM runs a DBUS service, which broadcasts an event when the network comes up. You should be able to write a program which runs at desktop startup, listens for that event, and does whatever you want when it happens. See:

http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/NetworkManager%20DBUS%20API.txt

I think the DeviceNowActive signal is the one you want.