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Introduction

Some personal notes

First I want to excuse my bad English, and I hope not to have made too many mistakes in this text. I have disigned this program to make X more comfor- table to use. Furthermore I have tried to make the program as easy to configure as I could.

About This Program

This program bases on the normal mount and umount commands. It only delivers a fast possibility to mount a device with a single button press under X. I tried to design it that way, that not to much space is wasted by the program. I also tried to make it very easy to configure with the help of dialogs, as you may have seen. Especially for CD-Roms I have added a function, which tries to mount the device for some time. In that way you can first take the cady out and then press the mount-button together with the pressed Con- trol key. Than you can change the CD, it put it back into the device and the computer will mount it auto- maticly, if you have been not too slow.

The Main Window

The Classic style

Depending on the style, you have choosen (pictured or classic) the outfit of the mainwindow is differ- ent. In the classic version you can see the devices, which are configured in the program. On the left side you have the button, which you can press to mount and unmount the device. On the right side, the status of the device is displayed (when you have enabled this function).

The pictured style

If you have choosen the default style you see some pictures, which are the symbols for your devices. You can mount and unmount the devices by clicking on those pictures. The status is displayed by the pic- tures itselves. Depending on your settings the divice-names are shown.

Functions in the main window

You can mount and unmount the devices simply by clicking on them. If you press Control while you are pressing a devi- ce-button, it will try to mount the device for a short while. Please read also "Options-Automounting" entry. Depending on your settings you can choose the differ- ent dialogs by the menu or with the help of the button- bar.

The Option Dialog

General settings

Here you can enable settings concerning the starting of the program. "Start iconified" will start the program as Icon. When you enable "Remember position" the main window will always be displayed on the same position. To save the position you must close the program and re- open it or change to the configuration or the option dia- log to save your settings! Because the program should not waste too much space, you can hide the menubar. The same goal has the "Only show buttons" checkbox.

Automounting

This function is desingned especially for CD-Roms with a long mountting time. To use this function unmount and open the device. Then press the mount button while you hold the Control-key down and close the device. You can continue working while the program tries to mount the device for the length of the period you have set in the options-dialog. Attention: This function only tries to mount the device all 1000 milisec for the period you have set in the options dialog. Therefor it executes the mount com- mand on your system, which you normaly use to mount a device. I do not know whether this function has some negative effects.

The setting control

Here you can choose whether or not the program should de- tect the status of your devices. If you only use this pro- gram to mount and unmount, it is enough to enable "Only start control". If you use other programs, such as a CD- Player and you change for example a CD, the program must re- detect the status. Because this needs CPU-Power, you can controll the period length ("Control frequence") in mili- seconds.

The style

This option controls the look and feel of the main window. Depending on your choise some options are diabled. Pictured style options

Enable Names

You can choose whether the names of the devices should be displayed or not. If you only have a CD-Rom and a Disk-Drive configured, it would not mak a lot of sense to enable this function.

The orientation

If you have enabled the pictured style, you can choose whether the icons should be arranged in a horizontal or in a vertical direction. Classic style options

Only show buttons

To prevent wasting too much place you can switch the status display off.

The Configuration Dialog

In this dialog you can configure the devices. Remember that you must be root to use the options. If you are not root, the entry will be ignored.

General notes

To delete an entry simply press "Delete". To add press "Add". The "..." - button will show you special options.

Mount options

If you are root you can enable special mount options. If there are some otions, which are not in the option-dialog you can add them manualy, but if you press the button for the option dialog again, your additional entry will be lost. For more information concerning the options please read the man-entry. Therefor type "man mount" or "man umount", when you are in a shell.

Devicename, Mountpoint, Buttonname, Picture

It is enough for the program if you only enter the device- path or the mountpoint to work. Please ask your administrator (root), if you do not know the device-name or the mountpoint. In the buttonname field you can enter a name which is display- ed next to the pictures or on the button. The picture will only be displayed in the picture-mode (See Options-Picture Style"). At the moment you can choose between five different pictures.

Configuration Examples

Attention: The device names may be different on your computer!

Disk-Drive

----------------------------------------------------------- |Options: |Devicename:|Mountpiont:|Buttonaname:|Picture: | ----------------------------------------------------------- |-a |/dev/fd0 |/driveA |Disk A |Disk | -----------------------------------------------------------

SCSI Zip-Drive

----------------------------------------------------------- |Options: |Devicename:|Mountpiont:|Buttonaname:|Picture: | ----------------------------------------------------------- |-t msdos |/dev/sdb4 |/Zip |Zip |Zip-Drive| -----------------------------------------------------------

SCSI CD-Rom

----------------------------------------------------------- |Options: |Devicename:|Mountpiont:|Buttonaname:|Picture: | ----------------------------------------------------------- |-t iso9660|/dev/scd0 |/CDRom |CD-Rom |CD-Rom | -----------------------------------------------------------

Network

----------------------------------------------------------- |Options: |Devicename:|Mountpiont:|Buttonaname:|Picture: | ----------------------------------------------------------- |-t nfs |Compname:/ |/Net |Network |Network | ----------------------------------------------------------- Attention: if the network is not present and you try to mount it, it will course a crash!

User profiles

Of course every user has its own profile. Remember that a nor- mal user (that means not root) can not use the options and the devices must be first entered in /etc/fstab by root. The file with the profileinformation is placed in the home- directory. If it has been deleted, the default settings will be reloaded.

Configuration of the fvwm2-manager

If you want to start this program each time you start the fvwm manager (on linux?), you have to add the following line in the "fvwm2rc"-file: ----------------------------------------------------------- AddToFunc InitFunction + "I" Exec TkMount -geometry +x+y # end function InitFunction ----------------------------------------------------------- Probably you have allready the entry "AddToFunc InitFunction". Then you only need to add the second line. After the "Exec" command, you have to write down the programname (do not forget the path, if you have not set the program in your normal bin- directory!). With the "-geometry" option you can set the window on a special position. For x and y you have to set the distance in pixel from the left upper edge of the screen. The same can be reached by enabling the "Remember position" button in the option dialog.

Bug-reports, Email and www-page

Of course there are probably a lot of mistakes left in the code, and it would be fine, if you send me your bug reports or suggestions of new implementa- tions. If you think this program is usefull or not, please send me your opinion to the following adress: gvogt@mps.de The newest version can be downloaded under http://www.mps.de/tkmount My own homepage is http://www.mps.de/begin

Warranty and License

For information about the warranty and the license, please se- lect the menu items Help/Menu and Help/License or read the Files "License" and "Warranty in the directory, where you have installed the program files or contact the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.