On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:28, Boyan Tabakov wrote: > 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... Thanks Boyan... that got me thinking. The solution I have come up with is to use a udev rule. When I plug in my PDA, a network interface called usb0 is created for it, so I created a file /etc/udev/rules.d/85-PDA.rules containing: KERNEL=="usb0", RUN+="/home/paul/bin/PDA" and a /home/paul/bin/PDA script containing: #! /bin/sh case "$ACTION" in "add") cp /home/paul/PDA.desktop /home/paul/Desktop ;; "remove") rm -f /home/paul/Desktop/PDA.desktop ;; esac This needs a bit of polishing, but it seems to do what I wanted. Thanks again -- 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.