Keeping it on your tray

The "tray feature" can be used calling USBManager with the following line:

$ usbmanager --tray

USBManager Icon on status bar

Click with the left mouse button on the icon and the main window will popup. Clicking with the right mouse button will present you a context menu, accordin to below.

The ‘system tray’ gives you the feature to mount/umount the device with only two clicks. With this feature you’re able to call the main USBManager interface very quickly.

USBManager Context Menu

Enables tou to mount/umount your devices easily without invoking USBManager’s main window.

A good suggestion is put USBManager to start on the tray with the operational system, so it can monitor all your USB device activity and show you some nice notifications.

New device Added

Device Removed

Device removed incorrectly

Devices Properties

To obtain more info about a certain device, just select it in the main window and click in the properties icon, or simply double click the device.

Basic informations

Advanced informations

In the properties window you can change the devices label and view a lot of information about the selected device, such as:

• Vendor;
• Size;
• Model;
• Is it mounted?;
• Is it read only?;
• Mount point;
• Category;
• Serial Number;
• File system type;
• File system version;
• Block device;

Formating

Also, USBManager provide a way fast and simple way to format you USB devices. Just select the desired device and click in the format icon (broom). The following file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3 e EXT4.

USBManager Formating Dialog

In order to have more formating options, I suggest you to install the following tools: mlabel, ntfsprogs and e2label.

Disk Usage

The Disk Usage window use colored bars to highlight the biggest files and folders. Also, it provides a device macro analysis, showing an overview of the total number of files, average size of files, total number of folders and average size of folders.

USBManager Disk Usage