The Device Notifier

rgheck rgheck at comcast.net
Thu Jul 23 20:54:53 UTC 2009


On 07/23/2009 04:30 PM, rgheck wrote:
> On 07/23/2009 03:55 PM, rgheck wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to write a little desktop file that will allow me just to
>> mount newly inserted devices, rather than to open them with Dolphin. I
>> can see roughly how to do this, but have two questions:
>>
>> (i) Is there some local place one can put such files, instead of
>> /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/? I've tried putting the file in
>> .kde/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/, but that didn't work, and I also
>> tried .kde/share/apps/solid/actions/.
>>
>> (ii) How on earth would one go about just mounting the device? Is there
>> some call to hal or whatever that can be made?
>>
>>
>>      
> OK, I have some answer to the latter, but it doesn't seem to work:
>
> [rgheck at rghquad ~]$ dbus-send --system --print-reply
> --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_4A56_7815
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string:"/media/disk"
> string:"vfat" array:string:""
> Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "Mount" with
> signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"
> doesn't exist
>
> And yet:
>
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_4A56_7B15'
> access_control.file = '/dev/sde1' (string)
> access_control.type = 'removable-block' (string)
> block.device = '/dev/sde1' (string)
> ...
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames = {'mount_point fstype
> extra_options', 'extra_options', 'extra_options'} (string list)
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths =
> {'hal-storage-mount', 'hal-storage-unmount', 'hal-storage-eject'}
> (string list)
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names = {'Mount', 'Unmount',
> 'Eject'} (string list)
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures = {'ssas', 'as',
> 'as'} (string list)
>
> What have I done wrong?
>
>    
Uhh, never mind. Stupid me typed the uid wrong. 8s look like Bs....

rh

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