Is it possible to make Ejecter working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS?
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Previous versions of Ubuntu had nice looking application called Ejecter:
Description: application to unmount easily and safely external devices
Ejecter is a simple menu that sits in the system notification area, providing
you a quick way to unmount an external peripheral such as USB pendrive,
CD/DVD disk, external hard disk and so.
.
Ejecter will sleep behind the scenes and show an icon in the system tray when
one or more devices are connected to your computer.
It places its icon in notification area and allow to detach USB-device as in MS Windows. See screenshots (from here):
But is was removed from repositories since 14.04 LTS.
Is it possible to make Ejecter working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS?
Preferable I need solution for MATE DE.
14.04 16.04 usb 18.04 notification
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Previous versions of Ubuntu had nice looking application called Ejecter:
Description: application to unmount easily and safely external devices
Ejecter is a simple menu that sits in the system notification area, providing
you a quick way to unmount an external peripheral such as USB pendrive,
CD/DVD disk, external hard disk and so.
.
Ejecter will sleep behind the scenes and show an icon in the system tray when
one or more devices are connected to your computer.
It places its icon in notification area and allow to detach USB-device as in MS Windows. See screenshots (from here):
But is was removed from repositories since 14.04 LTS.
Is it possible to make Ejecter working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS?
Preferable I need solution for MATE DE.
14.04 16.04 usb 18.04 notification
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1
down vote
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up vote
1
down vote
favorite
Previous versions of Ubuntu had nice looking application called Ejecter:
Description: application to unmount easily and safely external devices
Ejecter is a simple menu that sits in the system notification area, providing
you a quick way to unmount an external peripheral such as USB pendrive,
CD/DVD disk, external hard disk and so.
.
Ejecter will sleep behind the scenes and show an icon in the system tray when
one or more devices are connected to your computer.
It places its icon in notification area and allow to detach USB-device as in MS Windows. See screenshots (from here):
But is was removed from repositories since 14.04 LTS.
Is it possible to make Ejecter working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS?
Preferable I need solution for MATE DE.
14.04 16.04 usb 18.04 notification
Previous versions of Ubuntu had nice looking application called Ejecter:
Description: application to unmount easily and safely external devices
Ejecter is a simple menu that sits in the system notification area, providing
you a quick way to unmount an external peripheral such as USB pendrive,
CD/DVD disk, external hard disk and so.
.
Ejecter will sleep behind the scenes and show an icon in the system tray when
one or more devices are connected to your computer.
It places its icon in notification area and allow to detach USB-device as in MS Windows. See screenshots (from here):
But is was removed from repositories since 14.04 LTS.
Is it possible to make Ejecter working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS?
Preferable I need solution for MATE DE.
14.04 16.04 usb 18.04 notification
14.04 16.04 usb 18.04 notification
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Other methods (but out-the-box)
Disk Mounter applet
As @DKBose has noted, on Ubuntu MATE you can use other method.
All current versions have Disk Mounter applet (from mate-applets
package):
it is very compact on the MATE Panel and
allows to mount, unmount and eject media:
Note: @DKBose and I not sure about spin-off for HDDs (need to check again, I'll update this soon).
Caja
Standard MATE file-manager (Caja) allows to Eject, Unmount, and (for some devices) to Safely Remove Drive from Devices section
and from drop-down menu:
and from desktop:
Here Safely Remove Drive removes power from USB-flash (switches LED off) and spin-downs USB-HDD.
GNOME Disks
If other methods fail, then you can install gnome-disk-utility
package and use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
executable) application to mount, unmount and power off the drive:
Ejecter (original problem)
Yes, it is possible. But we need to get some packages from 12.04 LTS repositories manually:
mkdir ~/Downloads/ejecter
cd ~/Downloads/ejecter
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udev/libudev0_175-0ubuntu9.10_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/parted/libparted0debian1_2.3-8ubuntu5_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udisks/udisks_1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-disk-utility/libgdu0_3.0.2-2ubuntu7_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/ejecter/ejecter_0.4.4-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
then for 14.04 LTS use
sudo dpkg -i --force-all *.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
or for 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS
sudo apt-get install ./*.deb
Then log-out and log-in again.
Connect USB-flash or HDD and you will get Ejecter icon in the notification area.
To eject the device click on the Ejecter icon, then on appropriate device name and it will be safely removed from the system.
Notes:
1. Ejecter does not spin-down external USB hard disks. Use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
or from ApplicationsâÂÂAccessoriesâÂÂDisks) for this purpose.
2. This solution was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack), UbuntuÃÂ 18.04ÃÂ LTS (MATE, Unity, GNOME FlashBack, GNOME sHell).
I just installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04.1 and there's an applet called disk mounter. It's available as part of the default install. If you add that to your panel, various partitions and devices will appear in your panel. The mounted one will have a little green tag in the lower right corner of its icon. If you click on a mounted device, you'll see an option to open it or to unmount it. I don't know if this process safely "spins down" the drive. But Mate's file manager (and desktop) offers a "Safely Remove" option when you right-click on a device.
â DK Bose
2 hours ago
1
@DKBose thank you! I forgot about Disk Mounter. Added your observations to the answer.
â N0rbert
27 mins ago
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0
down vote
You can try these commands in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fredp/ppa
,sudo apt-get update
,sudo apt-get install ejecter
New contributor
This PPA does not have packages for current Ubuntu releases. So this is not an option. But I a have already contacted the developer about releasing packages for modern Ubuntu versions.
â N0rbert
10 mins ago
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2 Answers
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active
oldest
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2 Answers
2
active
oldest
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active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
up vote
2
down vote
Other methods (but out-the-box)
Disk Mounter applet
As @DKBose has noted, on Ubuntu MATE you can use other method.
All current versions have Disk Mounter applet (from mate-applets
package):
it is very compact on the MATE Panel and
allows to mount, unmount and eject media:
Note: @DKBose and I not sure about spin-off for HDDs (need to check again, I'll update this soon).
Caja
Standard MATE file-manager (Caja) allows to Eject, Unmount, and (for some devices) to Safely Remove Drive from Devices section
and from drop-down menu:
and from desktop:
Here Safely Remove Drive removes power from USB-flash (switches LED off) and spin-downs USB-HDD.
GNOME Disks
If other methods fail, then you can install gnome-disk-utility
package and use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
executable) application to mount, unmount and power off the drive:
Ejecter (original problem)
Yes, it is possible. But we need to get some packages from 12.04 LTS repositories manually:
mkdir ~/Downloads/ejecter
cd ~/Downloads/ejecter
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udev/libudev0_175-0ubuntu9.10_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/parted/libparted0debian1_2.3-8ubuntu5_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udisks/udisks_1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-disk-utility/libgdu0_3.0.2-2ubuntu7_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/ejecter/ejecter_0.4.4-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
then for 14.04 LTS use
sudo dpkg -i --force-all *.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
or for 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS
sudo apt-get install ./*.deb
Then log-out and log-in again.
Connect USB-flash or HDD and you will get Ejecter icon in the notification area.
To eject the device click on the Ejecter icon, then on appropriate device name and it will be safely removed from the system.
Notes:
1. Ejecter does not spin-down external USB hard disks. Use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
or from ApplicationsâÂÂAccessoriesâÂÂDisks) for this purpose.
2. This solution was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack), UbuntuÃÂ 18.04ÃÂ LTS (MATE, Unity, GNOME FlashBack, GNOME sHell).
I just installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04.1 and there's an applet called disk mounter. It's available as part of the default install. If you add that to your panel, various partitions and devices will appear in your panel. The mounted one will have a little green tag in the lower right corner of its icon. If you click on a mounted device, you'll see an option to open it or to unmount it. I don't know if this process safely "spins down" the drive. But Mate's file manager (and desktop) offers a "Safely Remove" option when you right-click on a device.
â DK Bose
2 hours ago
1
@DKBose thank you! I forgot about Disk Mounter. Added your observations to the answer.
â N0rbert
27 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
Other methods (but out-the-box)
Disk Mounter applet
As @DKBose has noted, on Ubuntu MATE you can use other method.
All current versions have Disk Mounter applet (from mate-applets
package):
it is very compact on the MATE Panel and
allows to mount, unmount and eject media:
Note: @DKBose and I not sure about spin-off for HDDs (need to check again, I'll update this soon).
Caja
Standard MATE file-manager (Caja) allows to Eject, Unmount, and (for some devices) to Safely Remove Drive from Devices section
and from drop-down menu:
and from desktop:
Here Safely Remove Drive removes power from USB-flash (switches LED off) and spin-downs USB-HDD.
GNOME Disks
If other methods fail, then you can install gnome-disk-utility
package and use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
executable) application to mount, unmount and power off the drive:
Ejecter (original problem)
Yes, it is possible. But we need to get some packages from 12.04 LTS repositories manually:
mkdir ~/Downloads/ejecter
cd ~/Downloads/ejecter
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udev/libudev0_175-0ubuntu9.10_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/parted/libparted0debian1_2.3-8ubuntu5_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udisks/udisks_1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-disk-utility/libgdu0_3.0.2-2ubuntu7_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/ejecter/ejecter_0.4.4-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
then for 14.04 LTS use
sudo dpkg -i --force-all *.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
or for 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS
sudo apt-get install ./*.deb
Then log-out and log-in again.
Connect USB-flash or HDD and you will get Ejecter icon in the notification area.
To eject the device click on the Ejecter icon, then on appropriate device name and it will be safely removed from the system.
Notes:
1. Ejecter does not spin-down external USB hard disks. Use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
or from ApplicationsâÂÂAccessoriesâÂÂDisks) for this purpose.
2. This solution was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack), UbuntuÃÂ 18.04ÃÂ LTS (MATE, Unity, GNOME FlashBack, GNOME sHell).
I just installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04.1 and there's an applet called disk mounter. It's available as part of the default install. If you add that to your panel, various partitions and devices will appear in your panel. The mounted one will have a little green tag in the lower right corner of its icon. If you click on a mounted device, you'll see an option to open it or to unmount it. I don't know if this process safely "spins down" the drive. But Mate's file manager (and desktop) offers a "Safely Remove" option when you right-click on a device.
â DK Bose
2 hours ago
1
@DKBose thank you! I forgot about Disk Mounter. Added your observations to the answer.
â N0rbert
27 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
2
down vote
Other methods (but out-the-box)
Disk Mounter applet
As @DKBose has noted, on Ubuntu MATE you can use other method.
All current versions have Disk Mounter applet (from mate-applets
package):
it is very compact on the MATE Panel and
allows to mount, unmount and eject media:
Note: @DKBose and I not sure about spin-off for HDDs (need to check again, I'll update this soon).
Caja
Standard MATE file-manager (Caja) allows to Eject, Unmount, and (for some devices) to Safely Remove Drive from Devices section
and from drop-down menu:
and from desktop:
Here Safely Remove Drive removes power from USB-flash (switches LED off) and spin-downs USB-HDD.
GNOME Disks
If other methods fail, then you can install gnome-disk-utility
package and use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
executable) application to mount, unmount and power off the drive:
Ejecter (original problem)
Yes, it is possible. But we need to get some packages from 12.04 LTS repositories manually:
mkdir ~/Downloads/ejecter
cd ~/Downloads/ejecter
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udev/libudev0_175-0ubuntu9.10_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/parted/libparted0debian1_2.3-8ubuntu5_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udisks/udisks_1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-disk-utility/libgdu0_3.0.2-2ubuntu7_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/ejecter/ejecter_0.4.4-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
then for 14.04 LTS use
sudo dpkg -i --force-all *.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
or for 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS
sudo apt-get install ./*.deb
Then log-out and log-in again.
Connect USB-flash or HDD and you will get Ejecter icon in the notification area.
To eject the device click on the Ejecter icon, then on appropriate device name and it will be safely removed from the system.
Notes:
1. Ejecter does not spin-down external USB hard disks. Use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
or from ApplicationsâÂÂAccessoriesâÂÂDisks) for this purpose.
2. This solution was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack), UbuntuÃÂ 18.04ÃÂ LTS (MATE, Unity, GNOME FlashBack, GNOME sHell).
Other methods (but out-the-box)
Disk Mounter applet
As @DKBose has noted, on Ubuntu MATE you can use other method.
All current versions have Disk Mounter applet (from mate-applets
package):
it is very compact on the MATE Panel and
allows to mount, unmount and eject media:
Note: @DKBose and I not sure about spin-off for HDDs (need to check again, I'll update this soon).
Caja
Standard MATE file-manager (Caja) allows to Eject, Unmount, and (for some devices) to Safely Remove Drive from Devices section
and from drop-down menu:
and from desktop:
Here Safely Remove Drive removes power from USB-flash (switches LED off) and spin-downs USB-HDD.
GNOME Disks
If other methods fail, then you can install gnome-disk-utility
package and use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
executable) application to mount, unmount and power off the drive:
Ejecter (original problem)
Yes, it is possible. But we need to get some packages from 12.04 LTS repositories manually:
mkdir ~/Downloads/ejecter
cd ~/Downloads/ejecter
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udev/libudev0_175-0ubuntu9.10_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/parted/libparted0debian1_2.3-8ubuntu5_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udisks/udisks_1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-disk-utility/libgdu0_3.0.2-2ubuntu7_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/ejecter/ejecter_0.4.4-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
then for 14.04 LTS use
sudo dpkg -i --force-all *.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
or for 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS
sudo apt-get install ./*.deb
Then log-out and log-in again.
Connect USB-flash or HDD and you will get Ejecter icon in the notification area.
To eject the device click on the Ejecter icon, then on appropriate device name and it will be safely removed from the system.
Notes:
1. Ejecter does not spin-down external USB hard disks. Use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks
or from ApplicationsâÂÂAccessoriesâÂÂDisks) for this purpose.
2. This solution was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack), UbuntuÃÂ 18.04ÃÂ LTS (MATE, Unity, GNOME FlashBack, GNOME sHell).
edited 21 mins ago
answered 4 hours ago
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I just installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04.1 and there's an applet called disk mounter. It's available as part of the default install. If you add that to your panel, various partitions and devices will appear in your panel. The mounted one will have a little green tag in the lower right corner of its icon. If you click on a mounted device, you'll see an option to open it or to unmount it. I don't know if this process safely "spins down" the drive. But Mate's file manager (and desktop) offers a "Safely Remove" option when you right-click on a device.
â DK Bose
2 hours ago
1
@DKBose thank you! I forgot about Disk Mounter. Added your observations to the answer.
â N0rbert
27 mins ago
add a comment |Â
I just installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04.1 and there's an applet called disk mounter. It's available as part of the default install. If you add that to your panel, various partitions and devices will appear in your panel. The mounted one will have a little green tag in the lower right corner of its icon. If you click on a mounted device, you'll see an option to open it or to unmount it. I don't know if this process safely "spins down" the drive. But Mate's file manager (and desktop) offers a "Safely Remove" option when you right-click on a device.
â DK Bose
2 hours ago
1
@DKBose thank you! I forgot about Disk Mounter. Added your observations to the answer.
â N0rbert
27 mins ago
I just installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04.1 and there's an applet called disk mounter. It's available as part of the default install. If you add that to your panel, various partitions and devices will appear in your panel. The mounted one will have a little green tag in the lower right corner of its icon. If you click on a mounted device, you'll see an option to open it or to unmount it. I don't know if this process safely "spins down" the drive. But Mate's file manager (and desktop) offers a "Safely Remove" option when you right-click on a device.
â DK Bose
2 hours ago
I just installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04.1 and there's an applet called disk mounter. It's available as part of the default install. If you add that to your panel, various partitions and devices will appear in your panel. The mounted one will have a little green tag in the lower right corner of its icon. If you click on a mounted device, you'll see an option to open it or to unmount it. I don't know if this process safely "spins down" the drive. But Mate's file manager (and desktop) offers a "Safely Remove" option when you right-click on a device.
â DK Bose
2 hours ago
1
1
@DKBose thank you! I forgot about Disk Mounter. Added your observations to the answer.
â N0rbert
27 mins ago
@DKBose thank you! I forgot about Disk Mounter. Added your observations to the answer.
â N0rbert
27 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
You can try these commands in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fredp/ppa
,sudo apt-get update
,sudo apt-get install ejecter
New contributor
This PPA does not have packages for current Ubuntu releases. So this is not an option. But I a have already contacted the developer about releasing packages for modern Ubuntu versions.
â N0rbert
10 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
You can try these commands in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fredp/ppa
,sudo apt-get update
,sudo apt-get install ejecter
New contributor
This PPA does not have packages for current Ubuntu releases. So this is not an option. But I a have already contacted the developer about releasing packages for modern Ubuntu versions.
â N0rbert
10 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
up vote
0
down vote
You can try these commands in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fredp/ppa
,sudo apt-get update
,sudo apt-get install ejecter
New contributor
You can try these commands in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fredp/ppa
,sudo apt-get update
,sudo apt-get install ejecter
New contributor
New contributor
answered 14 mins ago
Darealboi2090 YT
1
1
New contributor
New contributor
This PPA does not have packages for current Ubuntu releases. So this is not an option. But I a have already contacted the developer about releasing packages for modern Ubuntu versions.
â N0rbert
10 mins ago
add a comment |Â
This PPA does not have packages for current Ubuntu releases. So this is not an option. But I a have already contacted the developer about releasing packages for modern Ubuntu versions.
â N0rbert
10 mins ago
This PPA does not have packages for current Ubuntu releases. So this is not an option. But I a have already contacted the developer about releasing packages for modern Ubuntu versions.
â N0rbert
10 mins ago
This PPA does not have packages for current Ubuntu releases. So this is not an option. But I a have already contacted the developer about releasing packages for modern Ubuntu versions.
â N0rbert
10 mins ago
add a comment |Â
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