Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[akash_rawal]

This is pup-volume-monitor, a lightweight drive and volume management backend.

It works same as gvfs volume monitor, except it is quite small and doesn't have any heavy dependencies like gnome-disk-utility or hal or dbus.

It is this kind of software responsible for displaying drives in file managers and file open/save dialogs in ubuntu and others.

It is not very stable yet, report any bugs that you find.

pcmanfm 0.9x and above works well with it. So does thunar. Basically all programs that use GIO should be able to use it.



I am including binary for slacko puppy. Others see third post.

The changes will only appear in newly started applications. Restart X for changes to take effect fully.

pup-volume-monitor-0.1.15-0-i686-slacko5.5.pet

Older versions here

Desktop-drive-icons is below, second post.

[akash_rawal]

desktop-drive-icons is a workaround for file managers not supporting volume management using GIO, e.g rox. It displays the drive icons on desktop, but it draws them on its separate window so it works on all file managers. Moreover, it's configurable.



Binary for slacko puppy: desktop_drive_icons-0.0.6-0-i686-slacko5.6.0.pet

Source package: desktop_drive_icons-0.0.6.tar.gz

Older versions: http://www.dropbox.com/sh/k1hn0un11p395k2/h-Qrv-1wgk/desktop-drive-icons

[akash_rawal]

For other puppies, instructions to compile from source...

1. Get devx.sfs file for your puppy, it contains necessary tools to compile programs from source.
   
2. Get source code (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58347439/pup-vm/source/pup-volume-monitor-0.1.15.tar.gz), extract the files into some directory,
   
3. Open terminal in that directory (rox-filer shortcut: `)(pcmanfm shortcut: F4)
   
4. Type ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc && make && make install
   --sysconfdir=/etc is important, or else config files will be installed in wrong place.
   
5. Create start-pup-volume-monitor script in /etc/init.d with contents
   

   Code:

   #!/bin/bash case "$1" in     start)         pup-volume-monitor-admin --start         ;;     stop)         pup-volume-monitor-admin --stop         ;;     restart)         pup-volume-monitor-admin --stop       sleep 1         pup-volume-monitor-admin --start         ;;     *)         echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"         ;; esac

   
   
6. Run pup-volume-monitor-admin --start in terminal. Then you can open a suitable program, and see whether your drives are listed in file open / save dialog.
   

The latest sources are available on subversion, at http://pup-volume-monitor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/. To use them:

[arj_pup]

this package is the one i had been trying to find for 1.5 years, and its just the one needed i feel that this should replace the puppy event manager (with a working gui front end),
well i would like to use your package in a XFCE 4.10 pet that i am currently compiling, am i free to use it.
finally i have a request i need the PCmanfm that is in you screenshot can you make it into a package for me,

[arj_pup]

i have compiled thunar in slacko full install after installing you pet
there is a small problem
except for sda8(the drive in which i installed slacko) all the other hard drive are shown in a light colour and after i mount them by(clicking) i am redirected to the drive(/mnt/sdaX, where X is integer form 1 -11 except
but the drive icon disappears from the side plane (there are screen shots)
although removable drive do not have this prob lem

i am not sure if this is a problem of thunar as the gtk file finder does not have this problem

[akash_rawal]

[arj_pup]

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sh-4.1# pup-volume-monitor-admin --listen
Event: change; detail=mount
Device sda1:
display_name=sda1
icon_name=themed_icon|harddrive|gtk-harddisk|drive-harddisk|gnome-dev-harddisk
type=PupVolume
unix_dev=/dev/sda1
label=(null)
fstype=ntfs
uuid=9868DEB168DE8D7E
drv_sysname=sda
mntpnt=/mnt/sda1
flags = 0 | PUP_VOLUME_IS_MOUNTABLE
Event: change; detail=mount
Device sda8:
display_name=sda8
icon_name=themed_icon|harddrive|gtk-harddisk|drive-harddisk|gnome-dev-harddisk
type=PupVolume
unix_dev=/dev/sda8
label=(null)
fstype=ext4
uuid=1d0a5bb7-d2e8-4ff6-94dd-f81761649142
drv_sysname=sda
mntpnt=/mnt/sda8
flags = 0 | PUP_VOLUME_IS_MOUNTABLE
Event: change; detail=mount
Device sda7:
display_name=sda7
icon_name=themed_icon|harddrive|gtk-harddisk|drive-harddisk|gnome-dev-harddisk
type=PupVolume
unix_dev=/dev/sda7
label=(null)
fstype=ext4
uuid=789457c3-57ca-4f0b-994f-d4d160cb70f0
drv_sysname=sda
mntpnt=/mnt/sda7
flags = 0 | PUP_VOLUME_IS_MOUNTABLE
Event: change; detail=mount
Device sda6:
display_name=sda6
icon_name=themed_icon|harddrive|gtk-harddisk|drive-harddisk|gnome-dev-harddisk
type=PupVolume
unix_dev=/dev/sda6
label=(null)
fstype=ntfs
uuid=1298B0B398B09727
drv_sysname=sda
mntpnt=/mnt/sda6
flags = 0 | PUP_VOLUME_IS_MOUNTABLE


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[akash_rawal]

The problem is definitely with thunar as pup-volume-monitor is sending correct events.

Is anyone else able to reproduce the problem?

I am now tracing thunar's source code to guess where could be the problem.

Thanks.

[Geoffrey]

[akash_rawal]

Thunar seems to be hiding volumes if it thinks they are system volumes.

It uses g_unix_is_mount_path_system_internal() and !g_unix_mount_point_is_user_mountable() to do this. I think problem might be there.

I have modified thunar/thunar-gio-extensions.c so that if volumes are hidden for this reason it will message on terminal. Copy back the attached file, recompile and run thunar in terminal and look out for messages which state that a volume is hidden.

If you see those messages, then for now comment out contents of thunar_g_mount_is_internal() in thunar/thunar-gio-extensions.c:406 and make it return FALSE. I will ask on gtk-list regarding that.

[arj_pup]

well i tried it out in an frugal installation the same thunar that hid the drive icons in full install icon doesn't do so in the frugal install its an issue with the full puppy installation

[akash_rawal]

[Jejy69]

Hello developer!

A big thank you for this work! I really need you save me from all these hal, gvfs, udisks ...
I do not know if you've had this bug, but I unfortunately can not delete some folders. It returns me an error message:
"Invalid cross-device link".
My Thunar is 1.4.

I can delete the empty folders, but not those containing at least one file.

I put a screen.

I hope there is a solution!
Thanks !

[jemimah]

This is working much better than before.

I have only one issue left.

I can't get optical drives to work unless I start the volume monitor daemon with optical drive tray open or empty. After I close the drive everything works perfectly. I can then plugin USB optical drives and or change CDs and it works.

But nothing will work if the daemon starts with a CD in the drive, or if I'm using a USB optical drive (without first getting things started with an internal drive).

Help!

[akash_rawal]