Autostart digikam after camera is mounted [solved]

[alienjon]

While in KDE, I setup both 'mounted camera' and 'camera' to automatically run 'digikam' as soon as the camera or mounted camera is detected. When I turn on the camera and it automounts, however, I get this:

[didymos]

Well, the command kmenu uses is this:

[alienjon]

I get an error with that in the terminal. I think some of the parameters assume information that KMENU would otherwise provide.

[didymos]

Yeah, that won't work in a terminal. All those % variables would be replaced before the command actually got issued. But, it should work if you're setting actions or file associations.
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Thomas S. Howard

[alienjon]

Still a no go with or without those parameters. Same '/' error in both cases. I wonder if I can specify the directory as a parameter and if that would fix the issue?

[alienjon]

ya, just tried it but I still get the same error.

[alienjon]

Found the fix. Apparently this was a bug with digiKam itself. Updating to 0.9 series fixed the issue. Here's where I found the solution (so I don't take props where they're due!)

[El_Presidente_Pufferfish]

What happens if you already have digiKam open, then attach a camera?

[alienjon]

It just keeps the one instance of digiKam but opens the view for that specific camera. (Shows the pictures currently on the camera with the options to download/delete them)

[El_Presidente_Pufferfish]

What command are you using to start digikam?

If i have ivman run digikam --detect-camera while digikam is already running I get two instances running.

[alienjon]

I can't actually tell. After the upgrade there was a new option created for the 'camera' type listed: "digiKam detect and download" (as well as 2 others with similar names but for 'mounted camera' and 'unmounted camera', not 'camera'). I'd like to tell you specifically what they are, but the 'properties' button is greyed out so I can't look at them specifically. I think they're something added to the newest version of the program. Did you upgrade to 0.9.2?

[El_Presidente_Pufferfish]

[alienjon]

That would probably be why. If you know where the kdinit (or whatever kde directly uses to run these) config or data file that would contain this info would be, just let me know and I could check for ya.