On 15.11.2006 00:51, Cathal O'Brien wrote: > > I've got an icon that does what I want, what I would like is for that > > icon to > > be hidden when the PDA is not plugged in and then automatically appear on > > the > > desktop when I plug in the PDA. It's not essential - just wondering if > > there > > was a way to do it :-) > > > > -- > > Paul > > ___________________________________________________ > > This message is from the kde mailing list. > > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > Nah i cant say its not possible but i was doing something like that with an > external device before and the icon was always their. Dont know of a way to > hide the icon once unplugged. Does anyone else know whether this is > possible? Hi, I am not sure if you accomplish this by means of KDE, but here is what I'd do to make it work: You have hal, right? There is a command line tool called hal-device that lists all the devices recognized by hal that are connected to the system. Type hal-device | less and look through the list when your PDA is connected. Find the line that identifies it. You can then right a simple daemon that monitors when this device is plugged and make it show/hide your desktop icon. It ma look something like this: #!/bin/bash while true ; do if [ `hal-device | grep "identification string goes here" | wc -l` -ge 1 ] then -f ~/Desktop/.My\ Hidden\ Icon && mv ~/Desktop/.My\ Hidden\ Icon ~/Desktop/My\ Visible\ Icon else -f ~/Desktop/My\ Visible\ Icon && mv ~/Desktop/My\ Visible\ Icon ~/Desktop/.My\ Hidden\ Icon fi sleep 5 # sleep for 5 seconds before attempting to refresh done Just make sure the script is started when you launch KDE, buy copying it to ~/.kde/Autostart There maybe are ways to detect the kernel notification upon the PDA connect, but I don't know how to do that... -- Blade hails you... Put a stake through my heart And drag me into sunlight --Nightwish
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