Halevt, a nice replacement for ivman

I recently found time to start using halevt on my local machines as a replacement for ivman, automount etc. It has only one major dependency and is quite simple to setup. Liking it so much I also added it to the Archlinux AUR repository. You can find the halevt PKGBUILD there.

There is no real need to configure it out of the box but a few tweaks may be necessary. I personally needed to have shortname options set for vfat volumes and UTF-8 encoding aswell. You can use the built in halevt-mount command to do the mounting via HAL or whatever you would like ie. pmount.

You can also use halevt to respond to HAL events. In my particular configuration I display a notification in Awesome that a new volume is mounted.

Simple create your own configuration XML file in ~/.halevt/config.xml and the daemon should pick it up. Here is my current configuration (though it is changing constantly):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE halevt:Configuration [
<!ENTITY MOUNTABLE "hal.block.device &amp; hal.block.is_volume = true &amp; 
  (hal.volume.policy.should_mount = true | ((! hal.volume.policy.should_mount = false) &amp; 
  (hal.block.storage_device.hal.storage.policy.should_mount = true | 
    ((! hal.block.storage_device.hal.storage.policy.should_mount = false)  &amp;
    (hal.block.storage_device.hal.storage.hotpluggable = true | 
    hal.block.storage_device.hal.storage.removable = true)))))">
]>

<halevt:Configuration version="0.1" xmlns:halevt="http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/dumas/halevt.html">
  <!-- device init -->
  <halevt:Device match="&MOUNTABLE; &amp; hal.volume.is_mounted = false">
    <halevt:OnInit exec="halevt-mount -u $hal.udi$ -o sync -o shortname=mixed,utf8 -m 002"/>
  </halevt:Device>

  <!-- insertion and removal -->
  <halevt:Device match="&MOUNTABLE;">
    <halevt:Insertion exec="halevt-mount -u $hal.udi$ -o sync -o shortname=mixed,utf8 -m 002"/>
  </halevt:Device>

  <halevt:Device match="&MOUNTABLE;">
    <halevt:Removal exec="halevt-umount -d $hal.block.device$"/>
  </halevt:Device>

  <halevt:Device match="hal.storage.removable = true">
    <halevt:Condition name="EjectPressed" exec="halevt-mount -r -d /dev/sr0; eject"/>
  </halevt:Device>

  <!-- property changes -->
  <halevt:Device match="&MOUNTABLE;">

    <!-- when mounted or removed -->
    <halevt:Property name="hal.volume.is_mounted">
      <halevt:Action value="true" exec="echo &quot;naughty.notify({timeout=15, title='New Volume', text='$hal.info.vendor$ $hal.info.product$ $hal.storage.size$'})&quot; | awesome-client -" />
      <halevt:Action value="false" exec="echo &quot;naughty.notify({timeout=15, title='Volume Removed', text='$hal.info.vendor$ $hal.info.product$ $hal.storage.size$'})&quot; | awesome-client -" />
    </halevt:Property>

    <!-- is locked -->
    <halevt:Property name="hal.info.locked">
      <halevt:Action value="true" exec="echo &quot;naughty.notify({timeout=15, title='Volume Locked', text='$hal.info.vendor$ $hal.info.product$ $hal.storage.size$\n$info.locked.reason$\n$hal.info.udi$'})&quot; | awesome-client -" />
      <halevt:Action value="false" exec="echo &quot;naughty.notify({timeout=15, title='Volume Un-locked', text='$hal.info.vendor$ $hal.info.product$ $hal.storage.size$\n$hal.info.udi$'})&quot; | awesome-client -" />
    </halevt:Property>

  </halevt:Device>
</halevt:Configuration>