Developers' Blogs: boobaa

Target: When one inserts a DVD, it should be automatically - without any question, popup spam and other annoying effects - mounted under /media. Requirements: kdebase package (the rest will be pulled in by kdebase).

Under GNOME, ivman handles this function (if it does anything, besides writing to stderr). When you insert a media, KDE displays a window: "Open in new window" or "Don't do anything". The first is obviously not ok, the sencond does not mount at all. Let's start hacking...

Create the file named ~/.kde/share/config/medianotifierrc with the following content (this will ensure the automatism; unfortunatelly you can't use ~ in the path):

[Auto Actions]
media/dvd_unmounted=#Service:/home/boobaa/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/PMount_this_stuff.desktop

Then create the file named ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/PMount_this_stuff.desktop with the following content (this links the DVD insert event with the script):

[Desktop Action PMount this stuff]
Exec=~/bin/mypmo %u
Icon=button_cancel
Name=PMount this stuff

[Desktop Entry]
Actions=PMount this stuff
ServiceTypes=media/dvd_unmounted

Finally create the script named ~/bin/mypmo with rights 0700:

#!/bin/bash
pmount `echo $1 | sed 's|.*media/\(.*\)|\1|'`

This script is necessary because kded uses the parameter format system:/media/hdc, and pmount won't like that.

(Thanks for VMiklos translating the original post from Hungarian.)