getting signals like "usbdisk plugged in"

[John (J5) Palmieri]

DBus is only the transport.  HAL is what propagates hardware events over
the bus.  http://hal.freedesktop.org


On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 23:05 +0200, Alexander Bierbrauer wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I'Ve just started learning DBUS and wanted to create a simple python 
> prog for receiving messages when I plug in my usbdisk.
> 
> The first thing what I've tested is starting dbus-monitor and plug in my 
>   usbdisk.... uhhmm.. no messages, but why ??
> 
> As far as I know gnome-volume-manager uses dbus to receive such signals, 
> or not ??
> 
> So it should be possible for me too to receive them....
> 
> regards, Alex
> 
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