byronc bits http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog breaking old technology, one bit at a time Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:59:47 GMT Blogofile hourly 1 udiskie http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog/2010/06/03/udiskie Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:55:02 MDT http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog/2010/06/03/udiskie udiskie With 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 http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog/2010/04/06/pm-utils-and-locked-screens Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:54:54 MDT http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog/2010/04/06/pm-utils-and-locked-screens pm-utils and Locked Screens pm-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

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