Re: [Nautilus-list] Launching Nautilus on USB Hotplug Notification

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 08:41, Ryan Shaw wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have USB hotplugging set up on my machine 
> so that pictures are automatically downloaded
> from my camera (via jphoto) when I plug it in.
> 
> I would like to have the script that is run
> when hotplug detects my camera launch nautilus
> as well, as it is my image browser of choice.
> 
> Hotplugging scripts are run as root, so I have
> the following line to launch nautilus:
> 
> su - ryan -c "nautilus --display=:0.0 > /home/ryan/nautilus.log 2>&1" &
> 
> This works if I just run the script as root,
> but it doesn't work when the script is initiated
> buy the actual hotplugging (kernel calls 
> /sbin/hotplug).
> 
> If I replace "nautilus" above with some other
> GUI app (say, "eog"), it works. Only nautilus
> seems to fail, with no output to either stdout
> or stderr.
> 
> Does nautilus depend on some environment variable
> that might not be getting set? The "-" option to
> su should be setting up the correct environment,
> but maybe nautilus is looking for something strange?

Does it work if you don't run it as root?

-Seth