getting signals like "usbdisk plugged in"

[Tako Schotanus]

True, but it doesn't answer his question. The monitor should in fact 
behave as he says. At least I imagine the monitor can monitor all 
traffic that goes across the bus, if it understands the data or not 
should be irrelevant.

Alexander, I expect that the actual answer has something to do with 
rights: the monitor might not have rights to "see" the Hal messages and 
therefore it doesn't show them. I know too little though to suggest a 
solution, sorry (well, besides reading the part about rights in the docs).

Cheers,
 -Tako

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:

>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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