Thanks for the link, looks like its going to be "fun" :) - I think using an inotify file watcher might be the best/low resource way to detect the event.
BillK On 05/30/18 10:23, Andrew Udvare wrote: > >> On 2018-05-29, at 22:03, Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >> Can anyone suggest a way to detect when the displayport adapter is >> plugged in? >> > The event is provided by the driver(s) and if there is no event at all then > you have to use a script that loops forever querying to see if something has > changed. You could try grep'ing `xquery -q` every few seconds. > > This post says there might be something in /proc to track: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13746/how-can-i-detect-when-a-monitor-is-plugged-in-or-unplugged > > Andrew
