mount .iso file with custom action in Dolphin

[tony37]

Sometimes I want to check some files on the file system of an .iso file, and instead of using a Virtualbox, I found out someone has written the very useful /usr/local/bin/isomount program, which mounts .iso files at /mnt/iso.
And to make live a tad easier, I created a custom action for Dolphin (in KDE), so I can right-click an .iso file and select 'isomount'. For this I created a file called /usr/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/isomount.desktop with following content:

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=application/x-cd-image;
Actions=isomount;
X-KDE-AuthorizeAction=shell_access

[Desktop Action isomount]
TryExec=konsole
Exec=konsole -e bash -c 'isomount "${@}"; ANYKEY="Press any key to close"; ANYKEY=$(gettext -d mx-goodies "$ANYKEY"); echo; read -n 1 -s -r -p "$ANYKEY"' bash %F
Icon=emblem-mounted
Name=Isomount

Comment=mount iso file at /mnt/iso

If anyone else finds this useful, then maybe someone can write a custom action for Thunar and maybe this could be added to MX 21...

[m_pav]

Nice! Not a KDE user myself, but maybe you could get Adrians attention for his next build.

[dolphin_oracle]

quick question: do dolphin custom actions show up even if the target utility is not present? (I presume yes, but thought I would ask).

[tony37]

so you mean when there's no 'isomount' installed? yes, it still shows, opening bash with 'command not found'
or do you mean if there's no 'konsole' installed? well, if I deliberately misspell 'konsole' as 'konsol', then I still have a custom action for .iso files, but getting a window with: can't find program 'konsol'

[dolphin_oracle]

so you mean when there's no 'isomount' installed? yes, it still shows, opening bash with 'command not found'
or do you mean if there's no 'konsole' installed? well, if I deliberately misspell 'konsole' as 'konsol', then I still have a custom action for .iso files, but getting a window with: can't find program 'konsol'

I meant about isomount, but either works for my purposes, thanks.

[tony37]

I've noticed one tiny bug with this custom action: in the resulting terminal, I get errors about 'line 1366: losetup: command not found'
This doesn't cause problems, but I don't get these errors when I manually do 'isomount path_to_iso_file'

edit: now I remember my solution (I had reinstalled the isomount package): change line 1366 to

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    /usr/sbin/losetup -nl -O name,back-file | grep "^$dev " | sed -r 's/^[^ ]+ +//'

(so specifying the location of losetup)