Notify about udev block events
This runs in background and produces notifications whenever udev (or systemd) receives an event about a block device. Notifications look like this:
To compile and run udev-block-notify you need:
udev which has been merge into systemd)gnome-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-extras (or anything else that includes the required media icons)Some systems may require additional development packages for the libraries.
Look for libnotify-devel, systemd-devel, libudev-devel or similar.
Building and installing is very easy. Just run:
make
followed by:
make install
This will place an executable at /usr/bin/udev-block-notify,
documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc/udev-block-notify/.
Additionally a desktop file is installed to /etc/xdg/autostart/, this
automatically starts the program when logged in to a desktop environment.
Just run udev-block-notify after installation or re-login to desktop
environment for autostart.