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xCrucialDudex

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Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 144

Run X apps from pm-utils resume hook

So, I need to run 3 X apps from pm-utils resume hook.

I run X as a regular user and my resume hook /etc/pm/sleep.d/40-systrayapps looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
    hibernate)
        ;;
    suspend)
    killall transmission-gtk
    sleep 1
    pkill banshee-1
    sleep 1
    pkill miro
        ;;
    thaw)
        ;;
    resume)
    sleep 10
    transmission-gtk
    sleep 2
    banshee-1 --redirect-log --play-enqueued %U
    sleep 2
    miro
        ;;
    *)
        ;;
esac

The problem is that this hook script is run as root and it has no way of telling that those 3 X apps need to be run in a regular user's X session.

Now, I've tried just about everything I could find on google. You name it, I tried it.

xhost +
xhost +localhost
xhost local:root

xauth merge /home/REGULARUSER/.Xauthority
and combinations with
env DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/home/REGULARUSER/.Xauthority miro (for example)

exort DISPLAY=:0; export XAUTHORITY=/home/REGULARUSER/.Xauthority

xauth extract - $DISPLAY

ln -s /home/REGULARUSER/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority

dynamically detecting X pid and extracting display and xauthority data

all these returend "cannot open display message".

I'm officially baffled and utilized every resource I have including #archlinux@irc.freenode.net

If you have any other ideas how to run X apps after resume in any other way let me know, please.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Run X apps from pm-utils resume hook

That's what I do:

su lucke - -c "DISPLAY=:0 kmix"

Last edited by lucke (2011-01-26 15:06:32)

xCrucialDudex

Member

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 144

Re: Run X apps from pm-utils resume hook

that helps but just a little, miro returned this:

Gconf error.
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=d96a4237e50e61d8a9985a3c4b81586f --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: No protocol specified\nAutolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.\n)

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Run X apps from pm-utils resume hook

I don't know about gnome, but I had to do some magic if i wanted to stop amarok's playback. On suspend/hibernation I did

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=`cat /home/lucke/.dbus_session` su lucke -c "qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Stop"

- I put a script saving DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS in /home/lucke/.dbus_session on kde's start. So you might have to do similar magic with setting the proper environment variables to satisfy gconf or whatever miro wants.