Re: [gdm-list] custom display on gdmgreeter

[Yan Seiner <yan seiner com>]

Ishaaq Chandy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My wife uses an external USB hard-disk to maintain her photo gallery. 
> She needed a simple way to backup this disk. I've setup one of my 
> linux installs' udev configuration to detect when this particular disk 
> gets connected to its USB port and then kicks off my custom script 
> which mounts the drive, rsyncs her photo gallery to a backup disk and 
> then unmounts the drive when done.
>
> This works beautifully, no hassles. The problem is, there is no 
> feedback that this is happening, nor is there any indication when it 
> is completed and the hard disk can be safely removed. I was wondering 
> if there is some way I can hack into the gdm greeter for it to show up 
> an icon (and possibly a progress bar - but that may be ambitious) when 
> the disk is being rsynced.
>
> My wife isn't very computer savvy, which is why I want to make this 
> very simple from her point of view. I on the other hand am not afraid 
> to write some C/C++ to get this working. As long as someone can give 
> me some pointers as to where to start.
>
> ... or tell me I'm barking up the wrong tree and that GDM can't do this.
I don't know if notify-send works when gdm is running, but that would be 
a start.....

--Yan

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