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This document describes a method to configure halevt and traydevice in order to mount removable media. | This document describes a method to configure halevt and traydevice in order to mount removable media. | ||
Revision as of 03:53, 3 August 2012
This document describes a method to configure halevt and traydevice in order to mount removable media.
Installation
First you need to install halevtAUR and traydeviceAUR from AUR.
Configuration
After that you need to install a halevt config in ~/.halevt/
:
$ cp /usr/share/halevt/examples/umount_from_tray-gtkdialog.xml ~/.halevt/traydevice.xml $ vim ~/.halevt/traydevice.xml
Edit the relevant part into
<halevt:Device match="&MOUNTABLE;"> <halevt:Insertion exec="traydevice $hal.udi$"/> <halevt:OnInit exec="traydevice $hal.udi$"/> </halevt:Device>
Or if you want it to automatically mount when plugging in then edit into
<halevt:Device match="&MOUNTABLE;"> <halevt:Insertion exec="halevt-mount -u $hal.udi$ & traydevice $hal.udi$"/> <halevt:OnInit exec="halevt-mount -u $hal.udi$ & traydevice $hal.udi$"/> </halevt:Device>
Next you need to edit the default.xml
file of traydevice and change it to use halevt-mount instead of pmount-hal.
$ cp /usr/share/traydevice/default.xml ~/.config/traydevice/ $ vim ~/.config/traydevice/default.xml
Edit the relevant part into
<menuitem icon="gtk.STOCK_ADD" text="mount"> <!- - execute command pmount-hal, passing it hal udi of managed device --> <command executable="halevt-mount"> <arg>-u</arg> <ref>info.udi</ref>
and
<!- - execute command pumount, passing it device node from hal property --> <menuitem icon="gtk.STOCK_REMOVE" text="umount"> <command executable="halevt-umount"> <arg>-u</arg> <ref>info.udi</ref>
Finally you need to make halevt start when you login to X.
Just add halevt to ~/.config/openbox/autostart
if you are using Openbox, or ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
for Awesome.
Tips and Tricks
It is better to start halevt individually per user rather than as a system daemon since it might conflict with other volume manager.
Alternatives
Instead of halevt you can use another program based on UDisks - UDisksEvt. With the most recent version of Traydevice you can setup a complete hal-less (hal is deprecated after all) automounting system. UDisksEvt example configuration file already contains appropriate setup for Traydevice, so it should work out-of-the-box.