Hi fellow debian-user(s)
My problem concerns auto-mounting of removable media on multi-user systems.
What I want is a tool/some scripts that:
Whenever a removable media[1] is inserted the user who is owning the
active display [2], should automatically get the device mounted and a
filebrowser should be launched on the mountpoint. (which filebrowser
is up to the user to decide, I prefer mc in terminal, but other users
prefer konqueror). When the user closes the filebrowser, the device
should be automatically unmounted, so a little script will be needed
here.
I know of and use, ivman, which seems be the right tool for this,
since it runs system-wide and once per user.[3] The other users on
this system use KDE, and I don't know:
- if KDE uses ivman or has its own builtin code for handling removable
media.
- if KDE has its own method for this, can that code be deactivated?
Should it be deactivated, or is smart enough to not try mount device
when it runs under an inactive display? (my experience suggests
otherwise)
- Suppose KDE:s mounting can be deactivated, or be configured to use
ivman, so there is only ivman to configure, can ivman be configured
to only mount devices when run by the user who owns the active
display?
If ivman is not up to this, then are there other tools that can do
this? (And do these other tools play well with whatever window-manager
I happen to prefer?)
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[1] For now, I'm just interested in USB-sticks (but auto-playing DVD:s
would be a nice bonus
[2] or current VT, or whatever it is called, but all users are using
their own X-server (e.g. Lisa uses X-server 0 at vt7, Bob, uses
X-server 1 at vt8 and so on).
[3] ivman is started automatically on my system at login-time by
Xsession, as described in the documentation for ivman in Debian).
Kind regards,
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Note that I use Debian version lenny/sid
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