Introduction

This program is a front end for udisks and mount. It provides a means of mounting devices with udisks through a graphical interface.

It is principally intended for use where (i) the user does not want to make use of the automounting facilities of say, nautilus, as and when removable media are inserted in or removed from a computer, (ii) the removable media are not recognised by nautilus (or whatever else is used for automounting), or (iii) the user wants to be able to mount filesystems on user demand which are not removable media, such as network filesystems.

The program is built as a single-instance program - if the user attempts to start it when another instance of it is already running, the existing instance will be brought up on the current desktop.  It will therefore not usually be necessary to mark it as displayable on all desktops - instead a normal program launcher for mount-gtk can be placed in the desktop panel and clicked on when the user wants it presented.

More information is provided in the README file: README

Requirements

The requirements are:

Download

The source code for the most recent stable version is 1.2.0 and can be obtained here: mount-gtk-1.2.0

See the ChangeLog for further information about releases. c++-gtk-utils can be obtained from c++-gtk-utils.

A separate 1.0 series of the program is available which uses pmount rather than udisks as the backend; and as it only requires glib >= 2.16, it can also be used with installations which do not have a reasonably recent version of glib installed. The latest version of this is 1.0.12 and can be obtained here: mount-gtk-1.0.12. The 1.0 series is still maintained.

Help

A public forum is available at http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=251345

I can be contacted at cvine -at- users -dot- sourceforge -dot- net.

SVN

  svn co https://mount-gtk.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mount-gtk mount-gtk

The contents of the SVN repository for mount-gtk can be viewed through the web interface at viewSVN