Dispatcher script dynamics

["James ." <jazzrz86 gmail com>]

Ive been using NetworkManager svn for a while and with the recent dispatcher changes, there is a bit of a "feature loss":

Originally, I start nm AFTER my xsession starts, so that the dispatcher is run in the same tty as X in order to run a Gtk application as part of a dispatcher script (firestarter firewall for those interested).

Obviously, now that the dispatcher system is spawned under DBUS, one cannot write scripts to start gui applications using dispatcher...or can they?

Well it so happens that you can if you allow TCP connections to X and do something like "xhost +localhost" and set the DISPLAY environment variable, you can run gui applications. But this is very inconvenient and I dont really want any connections to my X anyway. Furthermore, applications dont know anything about the environment to run in, and as such, firestarter will always complain that it cannot run its scripts (error: "which: no iptables in ((null))", probably because it cannot fork the shell).

SO THEN, can anyone think of some alternative method that allows the starting of GUI's as part of the dispatcher's functionality without ugly hacks such as above?