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dudell

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Registered: 2009-09-05

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[Solved] How to start wpa_gui with the acpid

I have written a script, which start my wlan.

#!/bin/bash
#/usr/local/bin/wlan
function wlan_start {
    # a workaround. reload the module
    modprobe -r iwlagn
    modprobe iwlagn
    ifconfig wlan0 up
    dhcpcd -b -q -t 0 wlan0
    wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext -B
    wpa_gui &
}

function wlan_stop {
    dhcpcd -q -x wlan0
    killall wpa_supplicant
    ifconfig wlan0 down
    }

case "$1" in
        start) wlan_start ;;
        stop) wlan_stop ;;
esac

If I run it from a console (sudo /usr/local/bin/wlan start) the wpa_gui pops up.
I have installed it into the handler.sh from acpi. The script is correctly executed, if fn+f5 is pressed, but wpa_gui does not pop up.
What should I change, that it the gui pops up whith fn+f5?

Edit:
The problem was, that I forgot the access restriction of X.
Adding following code helps:

    export DISPLAY=:0.0
    export XAUTHORITY=/root/.Xauthority

Remark: /root/.Xauthority is a link to the file of the notebook user.

Last edited by dudell (2010-01-25 10:10:07)