USB drive unmount icon on toolbar

[Member jbeck]

Hi
Since the latest Antix goodies update, nothing happens anymore when clicking on the “unplug removable drive” icon placed at the lest of the toolbar.
This was a very useful tool when working with USB pens.
Any idea to restore this toolbar function ?
Many thanks

[Member Xecure]

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Edit the toolbar file in ~/.icewm/toolbar so that the command to launch the program is now
gksudo unplugdrive.sh
Restart icewm and it should now work.

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[Member jbeck]

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I’ve found a solution and I’m very happy to tell you how to fix this problem:
Go to Control Center, Desktop section, Icewm Setup option. In the text editor choose the “toolbar” tab.
In the text file, replace the line :
prog “Unplug the removable drive” /usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/48×48/devices/drive-removable-media-usb.png unplugdrive.sh
by:
prog “Unplug the removable drive” /usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/48×48/devices/drive-removable-media-usb.png su-to-root -X -c unplugdrive.sh

And after relaunch of the session, clicking the toolbar icon should again work as previously.
I guess the unplugdrive.sh needs root privileges now.
I suggest this be corrected in a new update of the Icewm toolbar file.
Hope this will help people experiencing same problem after the latest goodies update.
Big thanks anyhow to all people maintaining this wonderful OS.

[Member jbeck]

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Sorry Xecure. You answer came while I wrote mine. Thanks for your solution which should work as well.

[Anonymous]

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su-to-root -X -c <command>

FYI: on an antiX system, “su-to-root -X -c” does call gksudo (which is a symlink pointing to the “gksu” command).

Each of these will yield an identical result:
su-to-root -X -c unplugdrive.sh
gksudo unplugdrive.sh
gksu unplugdrive.sh

[Member jbeck]

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Thanks for you useful clarification, Skidoo

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