automount in terminal based file manager

[Member blur13]

Hi!

I figured out how to use automount in a terminal file manager.

I only use terminal file managers and whenever I insert a USB stick roxfiler will open up displaying its contents. This can be changed in the preferred applications by selecting another file manager, but only if its gui based. I thought it would be nice if instead the USB folder opened up in my favorite terminal file manager. So I did some research and experimentation. I want to use the terminal st and the file manager nnn

A basic problem is that you cant specify the working directory when launching st, so as a workaround create file automount.sh with the following lines:

#!/bin/bash

cd "$1"
st -e nnn

chmod 755 and put in $PATH

in ~/.desktop-session/startup
make sure the following line is commented out
#automount-antix &

and put in

devmon --exec-on-drive 'automount.sh "%d"' &

Thats it, now whenever a USB drive is plugged in, it will open up in nnn

Obviously, st and nnn can be changed for another terminal and file manager (ranger, mc, etc).

• This topic was modified 1 month ago by blur13.
• This topic was modified 1 month ago by blur13.

[Member techore]

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Interesting.

I’ve not used udevil, but it looks promising. After an update several months ago, my network drives stopped mounting from fstab on boot. I’ve been issuing ‘mount -a’ to mount after login.

@blur13, thank you for sharing.

[Moderator christophe]

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Yes. I, too, like terminal file managers (mc). And I play with antiX core often.
This will come in handy. Thanks!

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

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