Loot is a simple GUI tool to manage resources which can be opened and closed.

For example, you can use this to easily mount/unmount network shares.

Loot is visible as a status icon in the notification area. When clicked, it pops up a list of available boxes, and shows their state (open, closed, or error if the last script execution failed). Simply click a box to change its state. If it was open, it will be closed. If it was closed, it will be opened. If it was in an error state, Loot will try to refresh its state.

The Loot status icon shows a summary of the state of all boxes. It is closed if all boxes are closed, open if at least one box is open and all others are closed, or in error state if at least one box is in an error state.

The boxes themselves are configured by adding shell scripts (or other executables) to the configuration directory, at ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/loot/ (or ${HOME}/.config/loot/, by default).

A box is an executable that takes a single argument: the action to be executed. Each box manages a single resource. The supported actions are the following:

• status

  The script should write a single line of output describing the state of the resource: opened or closed. (Any other output is considered an error.)

• open

  The script should open the resource.

• close

  The script should close the resource.

That's it. Loot will only call "open" if the state is closed, and vice versa. If the script exits with an error status, the box is considered to be in an error state. See examples/dummy.sh for an example script.

There is a sample desktop entry in examples/loot.desktop. To integrate with your desktop environment, copy the loot binary to a location in your path, and then copy loot.desktop to (e.g.) ~/.local/share/applications.

To start loot automatically upon login, copy (or symlink/hardlink) the desktop entry to ~/.config/autostart/.

There is a PKGBUILD file which allows building Loot as an Arch Linux package. To install, simply run:

makepkg -fc
sudo pacman -U loot-*.pkg.tar.xz 

Loot is written in C and depends on GTK+ 3. It runs on Linux and maybe on other POSIX systems, too.