Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-10 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Thursday 03 April 2003 04:29, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:35:48AM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: [.. old script...] this scipt will fail if an already terminated server used the same display as another currently running one. you should only check the logs of currently

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-03 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2003 22:33, David Pye wrote: But yes, as I said, if there are multiple X servers active, I'm unsure as to how you can tell which one is currently being displayed on the screen. You could do something like either: I think there could even be more than one active Xserver.

which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Achim Bohnet
Hi, I would like to startup digikam, when the camera is plugged in. libgphoto2 comes with the example usbcam.x11-app hotplug script, but it has two limitations: o fixed user o fixed display (new complication du to the great 'New Session' feature) 'last' is one way to find out

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:12:54PM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: Is there a kdm setting to turn on to find out what display is the active one and if/what user is logged in there? try who. this requires that sessreg is used in Xstartup/Xreset, though. Other ways to get this info? none i'd

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread David Pye
Hmm... Good question! who tells you who's logged in... bash-2.05b$ who dmp :0 Mar 23 18:35 and the display/terminal is the middle column. However, I'm not sure how you can find out which one is currently being displayed. Perhaps you could annoy ALL the users by running

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread David Pye
Hi there, Sorry - I have now copied my original reply to the list - I have no interest in being secretive, I simply thought I'd pressed reply-to-all! bash-2.05b$ ls -la wtmp* -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 768 2003-04-02 11:31 wtmp -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 147072 2003-03-27

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:29:16PM +, David Pye wrote: However, I'm not sure how you can find out which one is currently being displayed. oh, right, i forgot that part. fgconsole. but this works only as root, so you need to define a sudo rule if a regular user should be able to execute

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 23:45, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:29:16PM +, David Pye wrote: However, I'm not sure how you can find out which one is currently being displayed. oh, right, i forgot that part. fgconsole. but this works only as root, so you need to

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:35:48AM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: Great one peace more of the puzzle. Here fgconsole works also for normal user: [...] It this a (security) bug? no, that's a bit permission magic done by PAM and/or the Xstartup script. every system does something different here