asmounter - AfterStep All-Purpose Mounter

asmounter [-h | -help] [-v | -version] [-D | -debug] [-d display | -display display] [-g +XPOS+YPOS | -geometry +XPOS+YPOS] [-c | -cycle] [-C | -create] [-s | -shaped] [-w | -withdrawn]

Asmounter monitors different mount points and facilitates the mounting and unmounting of these mount points. It is a X11 application that is designed to work with the AfterStep window manager. The code is loosely based on wmmount and asmodem and others. I primarily wrote this program to gain a rudimentary understanding of X programming so that I may go on to write better apps for AfterStep (hopefully).

The left mouse button is used to cycle through the mount points, which are established in the resource file (either ~/.asmounter or /usr/lib/asmounter/sys.asmounter). The right mouse button is used to toggle the mount point (mount/unmount). The middle mouse button is used to execute a command related to the mount points (in future versions this will be mount point specific).

-h | -help

Prints a help message

-v | -version

Prints the version of the program

-s | -shaped

Starts asmounter with a shaped window. Useful if you would like to place asmounter in your Wharf.

-w | -withdrawn

Starts asmounter as a withdrawn window. Useful if you would like to place asmounter in the Dock of WindowMaker.

-D | -debug

Starts asmounter in debug mode. This is useful for if (when?) you find a bug/error and you want to inform me of it ... simply show me this output with a description of the problem.

-d <name> | -display <name>

The name of the display to start the window in. This works just as does the X Windows display option.

-g +XPOS+YPOS | -geometry +XPOS+YPOS

This enables the user to specify the position on the screen that asmounter will appear when started.

-C | -create

This aids the use in creating a resource file to be used by asmounter. Use this option if you dislike fiddling with config files. Note: this may one day be implemented as a GTK GUI if there's enough interest.

-c | -cycle

If specified, the mountpoints will be cycled through when asmounter has been idle for a while. I can't really justify its usefulness, but, I like it.

Here are examples of how to start asmounter from the command line.

asmounter -s &

asmounter -display :0.0 &

asmounter -c &

Here is an example of how to start asmounter from within AfterStep. It uses the shaped extension. Place the following line in your .wharf file in your ~/GNUstep/Library/Afterstep directory.

*Wharf - - Swallow "asmounter" asmounter -s &

Copyright (c) 1999 by David Taylor. No guarantees. No warrantees.

Program: David Taylor n9506769@scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au

Pixmaps: Chris Lee mental0ne@sydcom.net