Scripts launched from udev do not have DISPLAY access anymore?

Question

I have a script that runs from udev when I plug in my external drive. It always worked. But after upgrading from Linux 3.8/Xorg 1.12/Mint 14 (<

Answer 1

I had to use this in Kali Linux 2016 to get it to work:

#!/bin/bash
set -x
xhost local:root
export DISPLAY=:0.0
su root -c 'zenity --notification --text="I am a notification!"'