obdevicemenu: Udisks pipe menu for Openbox

.:B:. · 2011-03-27 00:51:24

Looks like a very cool tool jnguyen, thanks .

zodmaner · 2011-03-27 04:19:11

Very nice little utility. Thank you.

gpunkt · 2011-03-27 19:26:40

is there any possibility to find out why I can't mount my (internal, activated mounting of internal drives in the config) sdb1 drive with the menu?
my user (nils) is member of "disk wheel video audio optical storage users" and when i use dolphin (which is still left on my system), i get the error message:
org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.
Authentication is required

so, i'm still not part of the group the disk belongs to (which is "disks") and therefore can't mount it? i need to set somewhere else something to get r/w access to the drive?

it's a bit offtopic but i thought it could be program related, too. so far: great little script

jnguyen · 2011-03-27 20:15:08

Thanks for all the feedback everyone

gpunkt wrote:

is there any possibility to find out why I can't mount my (internal, activated mounting of internal drives in the config) sdb1 drive with the menu?
my user (nils) is member of "disk wheel video audio optical storage users" and when i use dolphin (which is still left on my system), i get the error message:
org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.
Authentication is required
so, i'm still not part of the group the disk belongs to (which is "disks") and therefore can't mount it? i need to set somewhere else something to get r/w access to the drive?
it's a bit offtopic but i thought it could be program related, too. so far: great little script

This looks like a policykit/consolekit problem. If it doesn't already exist, create the file "/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-udiskie.pkla" with these contents:

[Local Users]
Identity=unix-group:storage
Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

If your user is in "storage" group, then you should be able to use udisks as regular user now.

Sorry, I forgot to add this to the instructions. If you have a file manager installed (such as Thunar), it usually adds this file automatically. I've updated the first post in this thread with these instructions.

Last edited by jnguyen (2011-03-27 20:18:35)

gpunkt · 2011-03-27 21:18:48

I thought it might have to do something with policykit/consolekit as I'm checking the files just before I read this update here.
it seems like there are no files in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/
will try the solution you mentioned. thanks so far!

aunt edith says:

works.

thanks!

Last edited by gpunkt (2011-03-27 21:25:57)

jnguyen · 2011-03-29 12:06:45

@gpunkt: glad you got it fixed.

1.0.5 released with information on device size now displaying correctly.

LungFungus · 2011-04-06 01:24:14

Devices does not appear as a menu entry, even after restart.

If I run obdevicemenu from cmdline, i seem to get proper output - xml that references my flash drive,

OpenBox 3.4.11.2
Freshly installed udisks
libnotify-send 0.7.1
dbus daemon 1.4.1

jnguyen · 2011-04-06 06:56:16

Hi LungFungus. Have you put this in "~/.config/openbox/menu.xml"?:

<menu id="devices" label="Devices" execute="/usr/bin/obdevicemenu" />

Last edited by jnguyen (2011-04-06 06:57:09)

LungFungus · 2011-04-06 15:42:44

Thanks jnguyen,

Yes I do have that line in the menu.xml file. I've checked the spelling too, usually my first mistake.

...
</menu>
<menu id="devices" label="Devices" execute="/usr/bin/obdevicemenu" />
<menu id="apps-editors-menu" label="Editors">
...

Last edited by LungFungus (2011-04-06 15:50:26)

jnguyen · 2011-04-06 20:37:10

Try putting into the "root-menu" part of your menu.xml. This is roughly what mine looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/menu">

<menu id="applications" label="Applications">
......
</menu>

<menu id="system" label="System">
......
</menu>

<menu id="root-menu" label="Menu">
  <separator label="Menu" />
  <menu id="applications"/>
  <menu id="system"/>
  <menu id="devices" label="Devices" execute="/usr/bin/obdevicemenu" />
  <separator />

  <item label="Shutdown">
  <action name="Execute">
  <command>sudo shutdown -h now</command>
  <prompt>Are you sure you want to shutdown?</prompt>
  </action>
  </item>
</menu>

If this doesn't fix it, maybe post up your whole menu.xml (pastebin if it's really long). I wouldn't really know how else to fix this though!

LungFungus · 2011-04-06 21:19:15

thank you jnguyen!

I knew I was making a silly mistake somewhere, I didn't have it in the root menu. I misunderstood the layout of the xml file, and the importance of the root section.

works perfectly now, this is a really cool add-on for OBmenu

jnguyen · 2011-04-06 21:25:30

LungFungus wrote:

thank you jnguyen!
I knew I was making a silly mistake somewhere, I didn't have it in the root menu. I misunderstood the layout of the xml file, and the importance of the root section.
works perfectly now, this is a really cool add-on for OBmenu

No problem, glad you got it working!

Sorry, I forgot to specify in the instructions that it must go in the root menu section. I've now changed the first post in this thread to mention that

student975 · 2011-04-15 12:41:35

@jnguyen,

Thanks!! - it just works..

ctarwater · 2011-04-17 11:06:14

Best solution I've run across for managing devices in Openbox and it works without any issues - thanks!

jnguyen · 2011-04-18 19:41:54

Thanks very much for the feedback student975 and ctarwater

jnguyen · 2011-04-23 22:41:45

1.1.0 released. Watch out for the change in configuration file!!

1.1.1 released. Just a bit of code cleanup.

Last edited by jnguyen (2011-04-25 16:58:35)

KLIM · 2011-04-27 19:56:06

nvm, just delete

Last edited by KLIM (2011-04-27 19:57:33)

iTwenty · 2011-05-03 17:27:03

Nifty utility...Many thanks.!

jnguyen · 2011-05-19 10:11:01

obdevicemenu 1.2.0 released. It now has support for /dev/mmcblk* devices such as SD cards.

There are numerous configuration file changes so remember to update them!

jnguyen · 2011-05-23 20:43:56

obdevicemenu 1.3.0 released, based on the bashmount 1.2.0 code just released.

Bear in mind that I haven't used openbox for some time now (since around obdevicemenu 1.0.0 I think) so the script has only received a small amount of testing for each release. Please let me know if you notice any bugs.

WorMzy · 2011-05-24 02:15:55

This is a great little app/script/menu. Took me a while to figure out why my internal drives weren't showing up, but now that I've got it working, I'm very happy with it. Certainly beats installing >50MBs worth of packages (gvfs+deps) to have thunar do the exact same thing.

It'd be nice to have partitions numbering more than 10 displayed in the right order, but that seems to be a limitation of sort. (e.g. /dev/sdd[10-12] in my menu come before /dev/sdd2)

Thanks for your hard work.

jnguyen · 2011-05-26 21:12:17

WorMzy wrote:

This is a great little app/script/menu. Took me a while to figure out why my internal drives weren't showing up, but now that I've got it working, I'm very happy with it. Certainly beats installing >50MBs worth of packages (gvfs+deps) to have thunar do the exact same thing.

Glad you are finding use for it

It'd be nice to have partitions numbering more than 10 displayed in the right order, but that seems to be a limitation of sort. (e.g. /dev/sdd[10-12] in my menu come before /dev/sdd2)

Hmm I never noticed this before as I don't have that many partitions

OK, based on your feedback I have released obdevicemenu 1.4.0 with a new configuration option called fancy_sort. This option is basically a big hack to get around a shortcoming of the sort command, which causes /dev/sdc11 to be shown in the menu before /dev/sdc2. This option deals with /dev/sd* and /dev/dm-* devices, but not /dev/mmcblk* devices as the sorting is not that simple. I have disabled this option by default.

Kudos to anyone who can implement it in a less hacky way than I did

Last edited by jnguyen (2011-05-26 21:24:51)

WorMzy · 2011-05-27 01:39:10

Works fine and looks great.

No noticeable additional delay on my PC.

Thanks a lot.

jnguyen · 2011-05-27 15:18:53

WorMzy wrote:

Works fine and looks great.
No noticeable additional delay on my PC.
Thanks a lot.

Thanks very much for testing and for the screenshot I had no idea people used that many devices

greatant · 2011-05-28 13:09:52

This is a great script, thanks.

I've partly ported it to FVWM (Just the info menu left to do.) I'll post it here once I'm satisfied with it.

Arch Linux

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