udiskie
June 03, 2010 at 08:55 PM | categories: archlinux, tools | View CommentsWith the deprecation
of
HAL proceeding at full speed it's time to
find a new solution for automounting disks on my Linux box. I've been happily
using halevt, which does a lot more than disk
mounting, but won't be of much use once HAL really goes away.
udisks is the replacement
that the major desktops are moving to, so I decided to write a simple
automounting daemon for those of us not using a major desktop:
udiskie. It's a simple udisks
client that just takes care of mounting removable media right now. I run it by
adding udiskie & to ~/.xinitrc. When I'm done using a removable disk,
udiskie-umount will take care of the unmount. I probably can't stress enough
how simplistic and undocumented this approach is, but it works for me.
And, of course, for the Archlinux users, it's already packaged in the AUR: udiskie
pm-utils and Locked Screens
April 06, 2010 at 05:54 AM | categories: tips, archlinux | View Commentspm-utils seems to be the clear winner
to userspace suspend and hibernate setup. It's a great back, but, for those of
us who don't run a desktop environment with a power manager, there's one thing
missing: screen locking. I'd like the screen to be locked when my computer
resumes from either suspend or hibernate, and I don't want to run
gnome-power-manager to get that functionality. So,
00lock-screen to the rescue. Just drop that file in
/etc/pm/sleep.d and, as long as you have xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver,
i3lock, or xlock setup, the screen will lock as your computer suspends or
hibernates.
For the Archlinux users, it's already packaged in the AUR: pm-utils-screen-lock