Gnome2:...Monitor(3)

✨ Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation manual, section 3, and it's all about Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor — it's literally just a wrapper for GnomeVFSVolumeMonitor. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a middlewoman and she's slaying at it 🎀

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🦋 HIERARCHY 🦋

the family tree, and yes she's an only child of Glib::Object:

Glib::Object
+----Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor

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💅 METHODS 💅

✨ list = $volume_monitor->get_connected_drives ✨

gives you a list of everything currently plugged in and vibing. no arguments, no drama, just drives 🫶

✨ drive = $volume_monitor->get_drive_by_id ($id) ✨

you hand her an id, she hands you back the matching drive.

• $id — it's unsigned. that's the whole spec, bestie, don't come for me 🙈

✨ list = $volume_monitor->get_mounted_volumes ✨

returns a list of all the mounted volumes. the ones that are actually there there. periodt 💅

✨ volume = $volume_monitor->get_volume_by_id ($id) ✨

same deal as the drive one but for volumes — you give an id, you get a volume back.

• $id — again, unsigned.

✨ volume = $volume_monitor->get_volume_for_path ($path) ✨

got a path and wanna know which volume it lives on? this is her. she will find it for you 🔍

• $path — a string, obvi.

✨ volumemonitor = Gnome2::VFS->get_volume_monitor ✨

this one's a class method, not an instance thing — you call it on Gnome2::VFS itself and it hands you back a volumemonitor. iconic entry point energy 👑

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🌈 SIGNALS 🌈

these are the little notifications she sends out when stuff happens. each one comes with its own cast:

• drive-connected — fires with (Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor, Gnome2::VFS::Drive) ✨ a drive showed up!
• drive-disconnected — fires with (Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor, Gnome2::VFS::Drive) 😭 a drive peaced out.
• volume-mounted — fires with (Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor, Gnome2::VFS::Volume) 🔥
• volume-pre-unmount — fires with (Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor, Gnome2::VFS::Volume) ⚠️ heads up, this volume is about to unmount.
• volume-unmounted — fires with (Gnome2::VFS::VolumeMonitor, Gnome2::VFS::Volume) 💀 and it's gone.

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read these too, they're the supporting cast:

• Gnome2::VFS
• Glib::Object

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2003-2007, 2013 by the gtk2-perl team.

This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Gnome2::VFS for a full notice.

fr fr, if you need the whole legal spiel, it's over in Gnome2::VFS. this page is just the highlights 💜

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and that's the whole thing bestie 🦋 this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, straight from the Gnome2:...Monitor(3) page — mwah, no notes 💋