[ACPI-sppt] capturing events with acpid

Hi all,

I am attempting to set up my asus so that when I press my email key the 
event is caught by acpid and launches thunderbird email client.

everything is going ok, I have set up scripts in /etc/acpi/ and 
/etc/acpi/events, /var/log/acpid show the event being caught and the 
program being launched, but attempts to run as root. is there a way I 
can launch thunderbird as the current user?

this is what /var/log/acpid gives me at the moment:

[Sat Oct 11 14:23:27 2003] received event "hotkey ATKD 00000050 00000003"
[Sat Oct 11 14:23:27 2003] executing action "/etc/acpi/email.sh"
[Sat Oct 11 14:23:27 2003] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


(thunderbird-bin:1543): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
[Sat Oct 11 14:23:27 2003] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Sat Oct 11 14:23:27 2003] action exited with status 1
[Sat Oct 11 14:23:27 2003] completed event "hotkey ATKD 00000050 00000003"

The Handler Message is identical to what get when I attempt to start 
thunderbird when su at the console.

I am guessing that if thunderbird did start it would be as user root not 
as user 'fred' (or whatever) if this is not the case, any ideas how I 
fix my problem with running xprograms as su

Oh! I am doing all of this from console within KDE if that makes any 
difference.

Cheers,

Ben.



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