udev_desktop_notifications

udev desktop notifications

Get a desktop notification on udev events.

How it works

The files *.rules contains the udev rule to filter udev events: when a match is found the script *-notify.sh is executed.

*-notify.sh uses notify-send to send a notification via dbus.

The desktop notification daemon (like dunst for example) will then catch the notification and display a message with the given informations.

Installation

see READMEs in subfolders.

If you use dunst as a notification daemon, you can append the content of dunst.append to its config file:

cat ./dunstrc.append >> ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc
killall dunst # reloads the config

ToDos

• write an installer;
• get the device and vendor names of the device from the udev facilites ;
• implement a dunst action to display more infos on mouse click.

References

Arch wiki: udev

man udev

Tips

$> lsusb -D /dev/bus/usb/xxx/yyy
$> dbus-monitor
$> udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger # reloads udev rules
$> udevadm info --attribute-walk --name=/dev/bus/usb/xxx/yyy