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Author: aitor_czr
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To: fsmithred, Steve Litt, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Frontend to pmount

On 02/09/2016 03:02 PM, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
> I was inpired by Steve Litt's amounter, but I prefer a semi-automatic. And
> I wanted an easy clicky way to use pmount. So I recycled some code from
> refracta2usb and added inotifywait.
>
> The result is a set of scripts that will pop up a window showing the
> partitions on the usb drive when it's plugged in. Then it mounts your
> choice and opens it in your default file manager.
>
> There are probably better ways to do this, but the only programming I know
> well enough to be useful is shell, and a good portion of this was already
> written. That makes it an ecologically responsible choice.
>
> If anyone wants to try it, there's a tarball here -
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/testing/usbwait.tar.gz/download
>
> Installation is completely manual right now. Open the tarball and copy the
> files according to the file list. I can roll up a .deb file later.
>
> You can use usbpmount.sh and usb-unmount.sh with panel buttons without
> using inotifywait. You won't get a popup window this way, but you can
> click to mount and unmount as unprivileged user. (pmount/pumount)
>
> If you want the popup window, the user needs sudo privileges for one of
> the scripts. A file is included to add to/etc/sudoers.d/ for this.
>
> With a few changes, it'll work (mostly) with zuluMount instead of yad|zenity.
>
> Depends: pmount, hwinfo, yad|zenity
> Recommends: inotify-tools
>
> yad for jessie is available here -
> http://debs.slavino.sk/files-testing.php
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
>
> fsmithred


Did you know obdevicemenu? I found it in the Arch's forum, but now the
download link is forbidden.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/obdevicemenu/files/

I can rescue this script.

Aitor.