[Digikam-users] digiKam hotplugging

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Vendredi 09 Septembre 2005 01:24 PM, Gerhard Kulzer a écrit :
> I think this mail is to Gilles, although I'm not sure who maintains the
> digiKam hotplugging scripts.

gerhard, i'm not hotplug script author. I CC this message to him (Oliver Dörr 
<oliver at doerr-privat.de>)

A nice day

Gilles

>
> 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.
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Gilles Caulier