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Sunday, April 25th 2004, 9:11am

HELP !!!

Hi,

well I have one, for me, big problem an I don’t know if this is the right Forum to post this.
Let’s give it a tray.

I have a Openoffice Impress Presentation on a USB stick. I made a little script that every time when KDE starts loads and automatically starts the Impress Presentation.

But what I’m trying now is to make a script or something like that that when I pull the USB stick out kills the Openoffice Impress Presentation and automatically starts the Presentation when the USB stick is back in.

I tried the same thing on the stick like in the normal home folder (.kde/Autostart/script.sh) but it didn’t work. I tried several other thing without results. Does anybody have an Idea?

I’m using Suse 9.0, KDE 3.1, Kernel 2.4.

Sorry for my bad English.

seb

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Monday, April 26th 2004, 6:18am

A possible method. I dont know how good it is.

make a 2 scripts "mymount.sh" and "myunmount.sh"
[code:1]
#! /bin/bash
mount /mnt/removable (location of USB key)
ooimpress
[/code:1]


[code:1]
#! /bin/bash
killall ooimpress
umount /mnt/removable (location of USB key)
[/code:1]

and use these to scripts to mount and unmount your USB key.

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Monday, April 26th 2004, 8:25am

Thanks for your Answer,


but the Script is not the Problem.
The Problem is to do this automatically.
When I pull out my USB stick myumont.sh should be executed and when I press the stick in mymount.sh should be executed.

How can I let him do that, as I said autostart is not working? If I execute the script with cron how can I know when the stick is pulled out.

Does anyone have suggestion?

Thanks