Mountlet

Mountlet is a desktop tray and terminal tool for mounting and unmounting rclone remotes. It uses your existing rclone configuration and does not store cloud credentials inside the application install directory.

How It Works

Mountlet is a friendly control panel for two standard tools:

• rclone connects to cloud storage providers such as Google Drive, Dropbox, S3-compatible storage, and WebDAV.
• FUSE lets Linux show a cloud remote as if it were a normal folder on your computer.

This app reads your rclone remotes, creates local mount folders, and starts or stops rclone mount for you.

Requirements

• Python 3.10 or newer.
• rclone, which connects to your cloud storage.
• FUSE, which lets Linux show mounted cloud storage as folders.

On Ubuntu, install the system tools with:

sudo apt install rclone fuse3

Install

For isolated CLI use:

pipx install mountlet

For the desktop tray preview:

pipx install "mountlet[tray]"

For a local checkout:

python -m pip install .

Use

Open Mountlet:

mountlet

The app checks whether your computer is ready before it opens the menu. If something is missing, it prints the next step instead of dropping you into an empty screen.

For a guided setup check:

mountlet setup

If you have not added any cloud storage to rclone yet, let setup open rclone's connection flow:

mountlet setup --configure-rclone

Normal use is:

mountlet

Quitting the menu leaves mounted remotes connected. Use u in the menu to unmount everything.

Desktop Tray Preview

The tray app is optional and uses PySide6. Start it with:

mountlet tray

If you installed the CLI without tray support, add PySide6 with:

pipx inject mountlet PySide6

The tray app uses the tray icon this way:

• Hover shows a short mounted/unmounted summary.
• Left-click opens the Mountlet window with compact remote strips, storage usage, mount-state toggles, click-to-open behavior, and config actions.
• Right-click shows app-level actions such as mount all, unmount all, update status, app settings, raw app, mount, rclone, and FUSE config files, and quit.

If your desktop session does not expose a system tray, use the terminal menu instead.

Extra Commands

These are useful for backup, troubleshooting, or moving to another computer:

mountlet path
mountlet verify
mountlet verify --auto-reconnect
mountlet reconnect --remote MyRemote
mountlet export ~/mountlet-backup
mountlet import --config ~/mountlet-backup/rclone.conf

File Locations

Mountlet keeps application data in user-specific locations and leaves rclone credentials in the standard rclone location.

On Linux:

• ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf: rclone remotes and credentials.
• ~/.config/mountlet/config.toml: Mountlet preferences.
• ~/.config/mountlet/mounts.toml: per-remote mount preferences.
• ~/.local/state/mountlet/: runtime state.
• ~/.cache/mountlet/: cache files.
• ~/cloud_mounts/: default mount root.

Print the paths for your system:

mountlet path

Create the Mountlet user folders:

mountlet path --ensure

That command also creates starter config.toml and mounts.toml files if they do not exist yet.

Override the mount root for a shell session:

export MOUNTLET_MOUNT_BASE=/path/to/mounts

App Settings

In the tray app, use Config > App settings to edit app-wide behavior. Use the Config button on a remote strip to edit only that mount. The settings windows show the available fields with text boxes, checkboxes, and dropdowns, then write config.toml and mounts.toml for you.

Technical users can still open the raw text files from the app-level config menu.

Keep cloud account details in rclone.conf; Mountlet settings only control local app and mount behavior.

Credentials

rclone.conf can contain OAuth tokens and provider credentials. Treat exported bundles as sensitive files.

• Do not share real rclone.conf files.
• Do not share client_secret*.json files.
• Store backups outside application install directories.
• Review exported bundles before copying them to another machine.

Status

The current public target is Linux CLI and desktop tray use. The tray is still early, but it is the main direction for the app.

See the changelog for version history.