Re: [Vala] detect mounted volumes

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:53:04PM +0200, rastersoft wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I need to detect when a new USB disk has been mounted or unmounted.
> Currently I use VolumeMonitor.get() to acquire a VolumeMonitor
> instance and list the volumes (using get_root().get_path() to get the
> mounting path), but I want to do it in a more dynamic fashion,
> detecting when the user inserts or removes a media and automagically
> refreshing the list then, instead of forcing the user to click a
> button to refresh it.
>
> The problem is that I don't know how to do it. Drive_changed and
> volume_changed signals are triggered before the volume is mounted by
> nautilus, and mount_changed never happens :? If I send the order to
> mount a volume when I receive its volume_added signal, nautilus
> returns an error when it tries to mount it, because the operation is
> already being made.
>
> So, how can I detect when a new volume has been mounted?

Try .connect_after()

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