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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:25:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Gary Newcombe <gary@pattersonsoftware.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spawning Xdialogs from devd...
Message-ID:  <20080430082403.T99651@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20080429160851.8f21394e.gary@pattersonsoftware.com>
References:  <20080429160851.8f21394e.gary@pattersonsoftware.com>

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>        match "subsystem"       "IBM";
>        action "/root/bin/acpi_oem_exec.sh $notify ibm";
> };
>
> I'm curious to know what is actually going on here. I wouldn't have thought the context from which devd is restarted would make any difference, but clearly it does. Any clues?
>
> Also, does anyone have any ideas how I can call Xdialog to get the windows displayed?
>

you run Xdialog from root (devd is root), you run X from user.

ln -s /home/<user>/.Xuathority to /root/.Xauthority

and of course add

DISPLAY=:0 before Xdialog



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