Xfce4-mount-plugin 0.4.3 review

Xfce 4-mount-plugin is a plugin for the Xfce 4 panel allowing you to mount devices and have them opened in a file manager afterwards.

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Jean-Baptiste Dulong

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Xfce 4-mount-plugin is a plugin for the Xfce 4 panel allowing you to mount devices and have them opened in a file manager afterwards.

This little plugin behaves like the "kwikdisk - removable media utility" shipped with KDE.

Press it and it will display a list of items representing your various devices. If you click on an unmounted devices it will mount it and vice versa. There is no warning in case a device can't be mounted or unmounted.

The plugin displays various information on each device :
"device name" > "mount point" ["used size"/"total size"] "available size" free and an obvious progress bar

The plugin works in a very simple way. It builds a list of devices from your /etc/fstab (using setfsent() and getfsent() ) and get device stat from the list of mounted devices (ie same data as the df command), using setmntent() and getmntent().

For mouting a device, the plugin simply runs a "mount /mount_point/ " command.

Requirements:
Xfce Panel 4.3.22 and newer only

What's New in This Release:
A new options dialog with tooltips was added.
The ability to customize the mount/umount commands was added for experts.