Some programs like GVfs hard depend on the 'gnome-mount' utility but Xfce users usually don't have it installed. But Xfce has 'exo-mount' which has similar functionality. The following wrapper script can be used as a drop-in replacement for 'gnome-mount' which simply calls 'exo-mount' with the appropriate command line arguments. It accepts all options but passes only those to 'exo-mount' which are actually supported and ignores the rest.

The script was tested with Bash and Dash but should work with other shells as well.

Simply save the script as 'gnome-mount' in a directory in your path, e.g. /usr/local/bin or ~/bin and make it executable.

http://files.uvena.de/gnome-mount

http://files.uvena.de/gnome-mount.gz

#!/bin/sh
#
# gnome-mount - wrapper script for use with exo-mount
#
# Copyright 2009 Enrico Tröger <enrico(at)xfce(dot)org>
# Licence: GPLv2
#
#
# This script aims to be a wrapper script to provide the
# gnome-mount utility on envrionments which only have
# exo-mount (e.g. Xfce). It accepts all command line arguments
# which are passed but ignores all which are not supported by
# exo-mount.
#
# (This script was tested with Bash and Dash.)
#
# Possible use case is as a drop-in replacement to get mounting
# local resources with GVfs working, e.g. mounting disks in CD drives.
#
# Usage:
# Save this script as 'gnome-mount' in a directory in your path,
# e.g. /usr/local/bin or ~/bin and make it executable.
#
 
 
 
OPTS=""
 
# first catch all passed arguments and keep those exo-mount supports,
# ignore all other arguments
while [ -n "$*" ]
do
	case $1 in
		-\?|--help)
		OPTS="$OPTS --help"
		;;
		-e|--eject)
		OPTS="$OPTS --eject"
		;;
		-u|--unmount)
		OPTS="$OPTS --unmount"
		;;
		-h|--hal-udi)
		OPTS="$OPTS --hal-udi"
		shift
		OPTS="$OPTS $1"
		;;
		-d|--device)
		OPTS="$OPTS --device"
		shift
		OPTS="$OPTS $1"
		;;
		-n|--no-ui)
		OPTS="$OPTS --no-ui"
		;;
		-V|--version)
		OPTS="$OPTS --version"
		;;
	esac
	shift
done
 
# now run exo-mount and hope things go well
exo-mount $OPTS