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Removable disk automounter for udisks

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udiskie is a UDisks front-end that allows to manage removeable media such as CDs or flash drives from userspace. Its features include:

  • automount removable media when inserted

  • notifications (on insertion, mount, unmount, …)

  • GTK tray icon to manage all available devices

  • command line tools for manual un-/mounting

  • support for LUKS encrypted devices

  • password caching

  • works with either udisks1 or udisks2

  • an extensible code base (python)

  • a maintainer who is open for suggestions;)

All features can be indidually enabled or disabled (yes, you can submit unmaintainable code and make me salty!)

Documentation

Miscellaneous:

Project pages

The…

  • Wiki contains installation instructions and additional information.

  • Man page describes the command line options

  • Source Code is hosted on github.

  • Latest Release is available for download on PyPI.

  • Issue Tracker is the right place to report any issues you encounter, ask general questions or suggest new features. There is also a public Mailing List if you prefer email.

CHANGELOG

1.4.5

Date: 24.12.2015

  • fix another bug with unicode data on command line (py2)

  • slightly improve stack traces in async code

  • further decrease verbosity while removing devices

1.4.4

Date: 24.12.2015

  • fix too narrow dependency enforcement

  • make udiskie slightly less verbose in default mode

1.4.3

Date: 24.12.2015

  • fix bug with unicode data on python2

  • fix bug due to event ordering in udisks1

  • fix bug due to inavailability of device data at specific time

1.4.2

Date: 22.12.2015

  • fix regression in get_password_tty

1.4.1

Date: 19.12.2015

  • fix problem in SmartTray due to recent transition to async

1.4.0

Date: 19.12.2015

  • go async (with self-made async module for now, until gbulb becomes ready)

  • specify GTK/Notify versions to be imported (hence fix warnings and a problem for the tray icon resulting from accidentally importing GTK2)

  • add optional password caching

1.3.2

  • revert “respect the automount flag for devices”

  • make dependency on Gtk optional

1.3.1

  • use icon hints from udev settings in notifications

  • respect the automount flag for devices

  • don’t fail if libnotify is not available

1.3.0

  • add actions to “Device added” notification

  • allow to configure which actions should be added to notifications

1.2.1

  • fix unicode issue in setup script

  • update license/copyright notices

1.2.0

  • use UDisks2 by default

  • add –password-prompt command line argument and config file entry

1.1.3

  • fix password prompt for GTK2 (tray is still broken for GTK2)

  • fix minor documentation issues

1.1.2

  • add key device_id for matching devices rather than only file systems

  • improve documentation regarding dependencies

1.1.1

  • fix careless error in man page

1.1.0

  • implemented internationalization

  • added spanish translation

  • allow to choose icons from a configurable list

1.0.4

  • compatibility with older version of pygobject (e.g. in Slackware 14.1)

1.0.3

  • handle exception if no notification service is installed

1.0.2

  • fix crash when calling udiskie mount/unmount utilites without udisks1 installed

1.0.1

  • fix crash when calling udiskie without having udisks1 installed (regression)

1.0.0

  • port to PyGObject, removing dependencies on pygtk, zenity, dbus-python, python-notify

  • use a PyGObject based password dialog

  • remove –password-prompt parameter

  • rename command line parameters

  • add negations for all command line parameters

0.8.0

  • remove the ‘–filters’ parameter for good

  • change config format to YAML

  • change default config path to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/udiskie/config.yml

  • separate ignore filters from mount option filters

  • allow to match multiple attributes against a device (AND-wise)

  • allow to overwrite udiskies default handleability settings

  • raise exception if –config file doesn’t exist

  • add –options parameter for udiskie-mount

  • simplify local installations

0.7.0

There are some backward incompatible changes, hence the version break:

  • command line parameter ‘-f’/’–filters’ renamed to ‘-C’/’–config’

  • add sections in config file to disable individual mount notifications and set defaults for some program options (udisks version, prompt, etc)

  • refactor udiskie.cli, udiskie.config and udiskie.tray

  • revert ‘make udiskie a namespace package’

  • add ‘Browse folder’ action to tray menu

  • add ‘Browse folder’ action button to mount notifications

  • add ‘–no-automounter’ command line option to disable automounting

  • add ‘–auto-tray’ command line option to use a tray icon that automatically disappears when no actions are available

  • show notifications when devices dis-/appear (can be disabled via config file)

  • show ‘id_label’ in tray menu, if available (instead of mount path or device path)

  • add ‘Job failed’ notifications

  • add ‘Retry’ button to failed notifications

  • remove automatic retries to unlock LUKS partitions

  • pass only device name to external password prompt

  • add ‘–quiet’ command line option

  • ignore devices ignored by udev rules

0.6.4

  • fix logging in setup.py

  • more verbose log messages (with time) when having -v on

  • fix mounting devices that are added as ‘external’ and later changed to ‘internal’ [udisks1] (applies to LUKS devices that are opened by an udev rule for example)

0.6.3 (bug fix)

  • fix exception in Mounter.detach_device if unable to detach

  • fix force-detach for UDisks2 backend

  • automatically use UDisks2 if UDisks1 is not available

  • mount unlocked devices only once, removes error message on UDisks2

  • mention __ignore__ in man page

0.6.2 (aesthetic)

  • add custom icons for the context menu of the system tray widget

0.6.1 (bug fix)

  • fix udisks2 external device detection bug: all devices were considered external when using Sniffer (as done in the udiskie-mount and udiskie-umount tools)

0.6.0 (udisks2 support, bug fix)

  • cache device states to avoid some race conditions

  • show filesystem label in mount/unmount notifications

  • retry to unlock LUKS devices when wrong password was entered twice

  • show ‘eject’ only if media is available (udisks1 ejects only in this case)

  • (un-) mount/lock notifications shown even when operations failed

  • refactor internal API

  • experimental support for udisks2

0.5.3 (feature, bug fix)

  • add ‘__ignore__’ config file option to prevent handling specific devices

  • delay notifications until termination of long operations

0.5.2 (tray icon)

  • add tray icon (pygtk based)

  • eject / detach drives from command line

0.5.1 (mainly internal changes)

  • use setuptools entry points to create the executables

  • make udiskie a namespace package

0.5.0 (LUKS support)

  • support for LUKS devices (using zenity for password prompt)

  • major refactoring

  • use setuptools as installer

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