On 2019-07-25, cheddar-cheeze <ched...@jiyu.moe> wrote:
> I am working on setting up sensorsd so that i can automatically turn on
> my display when docking my laptop, but on doing so sensorsd does not
> execute my shell script. In syslogd sensord shows the sensors being
> tripped so i am confused on why the shell script will no execute.
>
> #/etc/sensorsd.conf
> hw.sensors.acpidock0.indicator0:command=/etc/sensorsd/dock %2
>
>
> #/etc/sensorsd/dock
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ $1 = "On" ]
> then
> xrandr --output VGA-1 --auto --right-of LVDS-1
> elif [ $1 = "Off" ]
> then
> xrandr --output VGA-1 --off
> fi
>
>
Are you sure that sensorsd doesn't run your script? Have it do something
that always happens ('touch /tmp/somefile' or something) to be sure.
If it is running but isn't working as you expect, that's not a surprise
because a script started by sensorsd won't normally have access to your X
session. You can try something like
su username -c "env DISPLAY=:0 xrandr --output [...]"
