Description:

udiskie 2.5.3

udiskie is a udisks2 front-end that allows to manage removable media such
as CDs or flash drives from userspace.

Its features include:

automount removable media
notifications
tray icon
command line tools for manual un-/mounting
LUKS encrypted devices
unlocking with keyfiles (requires udisks 2.6.4)
loop devices (mounting iso archives)
password caching (requires python keyutils 0.3)

All features can be individually enabled or disabled.
NOTE: support for python2 and udisks1 have been removed. If you need a
version of udiskie that supports python2, please check out the 1.7.X
releases or the maint-1.7 branch.

Documentation

Usage
Installation
Debug Info
Troubleshooting
FAQ


Man page
Source Code
Latest Release
Issue Tracker


Hacking
udiskie is developed on github. Feel free to contribute patches as pull
requests here. If you don’t have nor want a github account, you can send me
the relevant files via email.
Further resources:

UDisks1 API
UDisks2 API
PyGObject APIs



Translations
Translations by users are always welcome. The corresponding files are in the
lang subfolder. In order to create a new translation, find out the locale
name for your language, e.g. es_ES for Spanish, and create a translation
file in the lang folder as follows:
cd lang
make es_ES.po
or simply copy the udiskie.pot to a .po file with the name of the
target locale and start editing. It’s also best to fill in your name and email
address.
The translations may become outdated as udiskie changes. If you notice an
outdated translation, please edit the corresponding .po file in submit a
patch, even for very small changes.
In order to test udiskie with your locally edited translation files, type
(still from the lang folder):
export TEXTDOMAINDIR=$PWD/../build/locale
export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8

make mo

udiskie


CHANGELOG


2.5.3
Date 24.04.2024

allow matching against a list of values in config rules (device_config)
[thanks @dajt1725]
fix --terminal command line option (was not doing anything) [@dajt1725]
fix AttributeError when python-keyring-keyutils is installed instead of
keyutils [thanks @bubbleguuum]


2.5.2
Date: 27.01.2024

drop external dependency on distutils (#278)
rename --notify-command to --event-hook to prevent misunderstandings (#279)



2.5.1
Date: 23.11.2023

fix default install location for bash completion scripts (#275)
fix zsh completion for device names with spaces (#253)



2.5.0
Date: 03.10.2023

add bash completions for CLI options (thanks @oersen)
updates for translations
added German translation
add bright outlines for wayland icons in dark themes
ignore snap loop devices by default
maintenance on CI workflows
fix KeyError when properties are invalidated multiple times (#272)



2.4.2
Date: 01.03.2022

add support for AyatanaAppIndicator3
update Turkish translation
fix some documentation typos and errors



2.4.1
Date: 02.02.2022

setup loop devices in read-write mode if sufficient permissions are
available



2.4.0
Date: 30.11.2021

add icon name that is specifically designed for tray panel
add Turkish translations (thanks @ersen0!)
try to detect installed translation files also in non-system installations
make it possible to override localedir manually using the TEXTDOMAINDIR
environment variable
add guide on how to contribute translations and improve the Makefile



2.3.3
Date: 05.03.2021

fix: buttons in “device-added” notifications always mounting the last
partition instead of the selected one



2.3.2
Date: 27.01.2021

fix incorrect use of wayland settings (appindicator+workarounds) within X
session, if a wayland session is or was active under the same user (even if
that was in a different login session)
fix incorrect display of image menu items under X due to caching



2.3.1
Date: 27.01.2021

add workaround for missing menu checkboxes on sway/wayland
add workaround for menu not showing up with proper size on sway/wayland
distribute icons within udiskie package (allows displaying icons in
local/venv installations)
fix ignored coroutine return values, fixes e.g. program exit code



2.3.0
Date: 22.01.2021

don’t swallow STDOUT for notify-commands
default to appindicator if tray is requested under wayland
don’t auto-disable tray when running in “pure” wayland session
set window role on the password dialog



2.2.0
Date: 07.05.2020

add Italian translation
remove unneeded xdg from optional dependencies
fix a typo in Spanish translation and update russian translation files



2.1.1
Date: 17.04.2020

handle XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable without external pyxdg dependency
silence warning when using AppIndicator
make --appindicator sufficient to show icon (previously additionally
required --tray)
improve wording in password dialog “Remember” -> “Cache”
make some of the logging more concise

fix recursive adding/removing of some child devices:

fix incorrect root device detection for devices without Drive property
(e.g. children of loop devices)
fix --detach option when applied to partitions of loop devices







2.1.0
Date: 02.02.2020

fix some typos (thanks @torstehu, #197)
change how device rules are evaluated: lookup undecided rules on parent
device (fixes issue with filters not applying to subdevices of a matched
device, see #198)
change builtin rules to not show loop devices with HintIgnore, see #181
change how is_external attribute is compute: use the value from udisks
directly (fixes issue with is_external property not behaving as expected,
see #185)
add ‘skip’ keyword for rules to skip evaluation of further rules on this
device, and continue directly on the parent



2.0.4
Date: 21.01.2020

fix user commands that output non-utf8 data



2.0.3
Date: 20.01.2020

fix exception when using non-device parameters with DeviceCommand
(e.g. in –notify-command)



2.0.2
Date: 30.12.2019

hotfix for automounting being broken since 2.0.0



2.0.1
Date: 28.12.2019

use importlib.resources directly on py3.7 and above, rather than
requiring importlib_resources as additional dependency



2.0.0
Date: 26.12.2019

require python >= 3.5
drop python2 support
drop udisks1 support
drop command line options corresponding to udisks version selection (-1, -2)
use py35’s async def functions – improving stack traces upon exception
internal refactoring and simplifications
add “show password” checkbox in password dialog



1.7.7
Date: 17.02.2019

keep password dialog always on top
fix stdin-based password prompts



1.7.6
Date: 17.02.2019

add russian translations (thanks @mr-GreyWolf)
fixed deprecation warnings in setup.py (thanks @sealj553)



1.7.5
Date: 24.05.2018

fix “NameError: ‘Async’ is not defined” when starting without tray icon



1.7.4
Date: 17.05.2018

fix attribute error when using options in udiskie-mount (#159)
fix tray in appindicator mode (#156)
possibly fix non-deterministic bugs (due to garbage collection) by keeping
global reference to all active asyncs



1.7.3
Date: 13.12.2017

temporary workaround for udisks2.7 requiring filesystem-mount-system
when trying to mount a LUKS cleartext device diretcly after unlocking



1.7.2
Date: 18.10.2017

officially deprecate udisks1
officially deprecate python2 (want python >= 3.5)
fix startup crash on py2
fix exception when inserting LUKS device if --password-prompt or udisks1 is used
fix minor problem with zsh autocompletion



1.7.1
Date: 02.10.2017

add an “open keyfile” button to the password dialog
add warning if mounting device without ntfs-3g (#143)
fix problem with LVM devices



1.7.0
Date: 26.03.2017

add joined device_config list in the config file
deprecate mount_options and ignore_device in favor of
device_config
can configure automount per device using the new device_config [#107]
can configure keyfiles (requires udisks 2.6.4) [#66]
remove mailing list



1.6.2
Date: 06.03.2017

Show losetup/quit actions only in ex-menu
Show note in menu if no devices are found



1.6.1
Date: 24.02.2017

add format strings for the undocumented udiskie-info utility
speed up autocompletion times, for udiskie-mount by about a factor
three, for udiskie-umount by about a factor 10



1.6.0
Date: 22.02.2017

fix crash on startup if config file is empty
add --notify-command to notify external programs (@jgraef) [#127]
can enable/disable automounting via special right-click menu [#98]
do not explicitly specify filesystem when mounting [#131]



1.5.1
Date: 03.06.2016

fix unicode issue that occurs on python2 when stdout is redirected (in
particular for zsh autocompletion)



1.5.0
Date: 03.06.2016

make systray menu flat (use udiskie --tray --menu smart to request the
old menu) [#119]
extend support for loop devices (requires UDisks2) [#101]
support ubuntu/unity AppIndicator backend for status icon [#59]
add basic utility to obtain info on block devices [#122]
add zsh completions [#26]
improve UI menu labels for devices
fix error when force-ejecting device [#121]
respect configured ignore-rules in udiskie-umount
fix error message for empty task lists [#123]



1.4.12
Date: 15.05.2016

log INFO events to STDOUT (#112)
fix exception in notifications when action is not available. This concerns
the retry button in the job_failed notification, as well as the browse
action in the device_mounted notification (#117)
don’t show ‘browse’ action in tray menu if unavailable



1.4.11
Date: 13.05.2016

protect password dialog against garbage collection (which makes the invoking
coroutine hang up and not unlock the device)
fix add_all/remove_all operations: only consider leaf/root devices within
the handleable devices hierarchy:
avoid considering the same device twice (#114)
makes sure every handleable device is considered at all in remove_all



1.4.10
Date: 11.05.2016

signal failing mount/unmount operations with non-zero exit codes (#110)
suppress notifications for unhandled devices
add rules for docker devices marking them unhandled to avoid excessive
notifications (#113)
allow mounting/unmounting using UUID (#90)
prevent warning when starting without X session (#102)
can now match against wildcards in config rules (#49)



1.4.9
Date: 02.04.2016

add is_loop and loop_file properties for devices
fix recursive mounting of crypto devices (udiskie-mount)
prevent empty submenus from showing



1.4.8
Date: 09.02.2016

fix problem with setupscript if utf8 is not the default encoding
fix crash when starting without X
basic support for loop devices (must be enabled explicitly at this time)
fix handling of 2 more error cases



1.4.7
Date: 04.01.2016

fix typo that prevents the yaml config file from being used
fix problem with glib/gio gir API on slackware (olders versions?)
fix bug when changing device state (e.g. when formatting existing device or
burning ISO file to device)
improve handling of race conditions with udisks1 backend
fix notifications for devices without labels



1.4.6
Date: 28.12.2015

cleanup recent bugfixes
close some gates for more py2/unicode related bugs



1.4.5
Date: 24.12.2015

fix another bug with unicode data on command line (py2)
slightly improve stack traces in async code
further decrease verbosity while removing devices



1.4.4
Date: 24.12.2015

fix too narrow dependency enforcement
make udiskie slightly less verbose in default mode



1.4.3
Date: 24.12.2015

fix bug with unicode data on python2
fix bug due to event ordering in udisks1
fix bug due to inavailability of device data at specific time



1.4.2
Date: 22.12.2015

fix regression in get_password_tty



1.4.1
Date: 19.12.2015

fix problem in SmartTray due to recent transition to async



1.4.0
Date: 19.12.2015

go async (with self-made async module for now, until gbulb becomes ready)
specify GTK/Notify versions to be imported (hence fix warnings and a problem
for the tray icon resulting from accidentally importing GTK2)
add optional password caching



1.3.2

revert “respect the automount flag for devices”
make dependency on Gtk optional



1.3.1

use icon hints from udev settings in notifications
respect the automount flag for devices
don’t fail if libnotify is not available



1.3.0

add actions to “Device added” notification
allow to configure which actions should be added to notifications



1.2.1

fix unicode issue in setup script
update license/copyright notices



1.2.0

use UDisks2 by default
add –password-prompt command line argument and config file entry



1.1.3

fix password prompt for GTK2 (tray is still broken for GTK2)
fix minor documentation issues



1.1.2

add key device_id for matching devices rather than only file systems
improve documentation regarding dependencies



1.1.1

fix careless error in man page



1.1.0

implemented internationalization
added spanish translation
allow to choose icons from a configurable list



1.0.4

compatibility with older version of pygobject (e.g. in Slackware 14.1)



1.0.3

handle exception if no notification service is installed



1.0.2

fix crash when calling udiskie mount/unmount utilites without udisks1
installed



1.0.1

fix crash when calling udiskie without having udisks1 installed
(regression)



1.0.0

port to PyGObject, removing dependencies on pygtk, zenity, dbus-python,
python-notify
use a PyGObject based password dialog
remove –password-prompt parameter
rename command line parameters
add negations for all command line parameters



0.8.0

remove the ‘–filters’ parameter for good
change config format to YAML
change default config path to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/udiskie/config.yml
separate ignore filters from mount option filters
allow to match multiple attributes against a device (AND-wise)
allow to overwrite udiskies default handleability settings
raise exception if –config file doesn’t exist
add –options parameter for udiskie-mount
simplify local installations



0.7.0
There are some backward incompatible changes, hence the version break:

command line parameter ‘-f’/’–filters’ renamed to ‘-C’/’–config’
add sections in config file to disable individual mount notifications and
set defaults for some program options (udisks version, prompt, etc)
refactor udiskie.cli, udiskie.config and udiskie.tray
revert ‘make udiskie a namespace package’
add ‘Browse folder’ action to tray menu
add ‘Browse folder’ action button to mount notifications
add ‘–no-automounter’ command line option to disable automounting
add ‘–auto-tray’ command line option to use a tray icon that
automatically disappears when no actions are available
show notifications when devices dis-/appear (can be disabled via config
file)
show ‘id_label’ in tray menu, if available (instead of mount path or
device path)
add ‘Job failed’ notifications
add ‘Retry’ button to failed notifications
remove automatic retries to unlock LUKS partitions
pass only device name to external password prompt
add ‘–quiet’ command line option
ignore devices ignored by udev rules



0.6.4

fix logging in setup.py
more verbose log messages (with time) when having -v on
fix mounting devices that are added as ‘external’ and later changed to
‘internal’ [udisks1] (applies to LUKS devices that are opened by an udev
rule for example)



0.6.3 (bug fix)

fix exception in Mounter.detach_device if unable to detach
fix force-detach for UDisks2 backend
automatically use UDisks2 if UDisks1 is not available
mount unlocked devices only once, removes error message on UDisks2
mention __ignore__ in man page



0.6.2 (aesthetic)

add custom icons for the context menu of the system tray widget



0.6.1 (bug fix)

fix udisks2 external device detection bug: all devices were considered
external when using Sniffer (as done in the udiskie-mount and
udiskie-umount tools)



0.6.0 (udisks2 support, bug fix)

cache device states to avoid some race conditions
show filesystem label in mount/unmount notifications
retry to unlock LUKS devices when wrong password was entered twice
show ‘eject’ only if media is available (udisks1 ejects only in this case)
(un-) mount/lock notifications shown even when operations failed
refactor internal API
experimental support for udisks2



0.5.3 (feature, bug fix)

add ‘__ignore__’ config file option to prevent handling specific devices
delay notifications until termination of long operations



0.5.2 (tray icon)

add tray icon (pygtk based)
eject / detach drives from command line



0.5.1 (mainly internal changes)

use setuptools entry points to create the executables
make udiskie a namespace package



0.5.0 (LUKS support)

support for LUKS devices (using zenity for password prompt)
major refactoring
use setuptools as installer

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

Share

• Share on Facebook
• Share on Twitter