For automatically mounting usb drives with an icon in the tray to control mounting/unmounting, installing udiskie and then running udiskie --tray works well.
https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Automounting#Udiskie On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Sławomir Kowalewski < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mickael, > > There is also very nice lain widget library and here you can see same > examples and ready to use configs > https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats > > On 3 June 2015 at 08:45, Alexis BRENON <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Mickael, >> >> For battery state and volume control, I use Vicious library ( >> https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Vicious) >> I use it also for clock but I implemented calendar manually, based on the >> work of Vincent Bernat ( >> https://github.com/AlexisBRENON/awesome-configuration/blob/master/backend/datetime/calendar.lua >> ). >> >> For wifi and more generally network controller, I never found anything as >> good as NetworkManager with nm-applet. I tried all in this list >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications/Internet#Network_managers >> . >> >> I didn't use any easy drive mounter, as I don't have many external drives >> or USB key. Only one good rule in /etc/fstab a folder named /mnt/external, >> and I only have to type "mount /etc/external" to mount my USB drive when >> needed. >> >> Hope my experience can help. >> >> Kind regards, >> Alexis >> >> Le mar. 2 juin 2015 à 17:05, mickael foucaux <[email protected]> >> a écrit : >> >>> Hi folks! >>> >>> I'm happy with new laptop running an Ubuntu 14.01 / Awesome 3.5.6. >>> >>> Now I'm looking for few useful / essentials widget as: >>> - battery state >>> - volume control >>> - wifi controller >>> - clock / calendar >>> - easy drive mounter >>> >>> Ok I saw few of them in >>> https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/User_Contributed_Widgets . However as >>> I know not all of them are compatible with awesome 3.5.6, I would like some >>> feedback and advice before to try randomly widgets. >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> Mickael >>> >> >
