---
name: "asmounter"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "asmounter"
version: "0.3-5"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/asmounter"
---

# asmounter(1)

AfterStep All-Purpose Mounter

## NAME

**asmounter** - AfterStep All-Purpose Mounter

## SYNOPSIS

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         \[-w \| -withdrawn\]

## DESCRIPTION

**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 /etc/asmounter.conf).  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).

## CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

- \-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- \-w \| -withdrawn

  Starts **asmounter** as a withdrawn window.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.

## EXAMPLES

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

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

## AUTHORS

Program: David Taylor

n9506769@scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au

Pixmaps: Chris Lee

mental0ne@sydcom.net