New program: Graphical Mount Manager
After my unfortunate AcetoneISO failure, I decided it was easier to write a new program to manage my disc image mounts.
I haven't built the dpkg yet, but the application is all ready to go.
Here's a copy of the readme file.
Graphical Mount Manager is graphical program that makes it easy to mount and unmount iso files. For a user who doesn't care what the path will be, and just wants to open the file, gmm is the right choice.
Upstream
This project's upstream is at https://bgstack15.ddns.net/cgit/gmm.
Alternatives
AcetoneISO is the obvious alternative. It stopped working for me.
Reason for existence
AcetoneISO stopped working for the author.
Using
The gtk frontend supports drag-and-drop. Drag an iso file from the file manager over the list of mounts. The tk frontend does not support dnd at this time.
Call the program, with a filename, to mount the file. The default behavior is to not show the gui if given a path(s) to mount, but you can force the gui to show with --gui.
Doubleclick an entry in the list to open it with xdg-open. You might find the following xdg-mime commands useful.
xdg-mime default xfe.desktop inode/directory xdg-mime default xfe.desktop inode/mount-point
Dependencies
- Devuan
- python3, python3-magic, python3-psutil, python3-tkstackrpms
Building
Just make && sudo make install, or use the package build recipe.
Future improvements
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/380870/make-sure-only-a-single-instance-of-a-program-is-running
Provide a socket/method that will let the running program refresh. Add function that refreshes the list, and add a menu entry for it. Have the program try to visit the socket and trigger the refresh function. Maybe just a 5-second timer?
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