udev-notify

Visual hardware notifications for Linux

udev-notify is a simple free software app for Linux that runs in background and shows visual notifications when you plug-in a new device - Camera, Joystick, Removable Drive, Media Player etc...
It uses udev for monitoring hardware changes, and NotifyOSD, notification-daemon, xfce4-notifyd or knotify (whichever you have installed) for the notifications.
Supports Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and derivatives - USU, Mint etc. (as long as they have udev installed).
Works on Fedora too (tested on Fedora 15 Beta).
It can run on other distributions too, but needs packaging for them.

Ubuntu Package: udev-notify_0.1.3_all.deb [40KB]
Ubuntu Repository (run the following commands in Terminal):

echo "deb http://download.learnfree.eu/repository/skss / #SKSS" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget http://download.learnfree.eu/repository/skss/repo.pub.asc -q -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install udev-notify

Foresight Linux (run the following command in Terminal):

sudo conary update udev-notify

Frugalware (run the following command in Terminal):

pacman-g2 -S udev-notify

RPM Package: udev-notify-0.1.3-1.noarch.rpm [45KB]
You must restart your user session after the installation. Then plug some device, to see if it works.
Source (in Bazaar): lp:udev-notify