[Digikam-users] digiKam hotplugging

[Gerhard Kulzer]

I think this mail is to Gilles, although I'm not sure who maintains the 
digiKam hotplugging scripts.

After I got my new 350d I tried to debug the hotplugging script that doesn't 
work since some time now. This is due to KDE 3.4 and also to Debian unstable 
updates. Here is what I found:

I run KDE 3.4.2 and Debian unstable

/etc/hotplaug/usbcam:  su -l -c should be su - -c, the latest login version 
doesn't accept the - l option anymore and goes nirvana.

USER=`ps -ef |grep "kdeinit..kdesktop" |grep -v grep |awk '{print $1}'` should 
be inverted to
USER=`ps -ef |grep "kdesktop..kdeinit" |grep -v grep |awk '{print $1}'`

I also have a different locale setting in root and user. So every time digiKam 
starts per hotplug it asks me if I want to accept the changed locale (because 
the system() call doesn't seem to take over the user locale). With the 
following addition in the /etc/hotplug/digikam-hotplug  script this annoyance 
can be avoided:
system("DISPLAY=$display LANG=de_CH.UTF8 digikam --detect-camera 1>/dev/null 
2>/dev/null&");

Of course the language should be adapted to the respective user locale, and  
something like ENV=`locale|grep LC_ALL= |awk '{print $1}'` could do that job.

Best regards
Gerhard

P.S. this is rather for libgphoto2 : my camera bought in Switzerland has a 
productID of 0x30ee and not 0x30ef as listed in usbcam.usermap. When I 
changed this manually, the hotplug agent found the event again.