udiskie VS inxi

The most common approach (though a bit different) to get write access for users is probably using udisks[1]/udiskie[2] which use udev and polkit [3]. udiskie even supports luks unlocking [4].

https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie looks close, but does it work without desktop environments? Is there alternatives to udiskie that doesn't require desktop environments and supports unlocking LUKS encrypted volumes?

Based on https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie/blob/master/doc/udiskie.8.txt and https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie/issues/66#issuecomment-289204539, you probably need to create a configuration for the encrypted hard disk in the file ~/.config/udiskie/config.yml. For example, as follows.

For example, I typically ran things like lxpolkit, nm-applet, redshift, udiskie and xfce4-power-manager when I used i3.

By running udiskie in your i3 session, for example.

This. There is also udiskie, a GUI tool with notification icon, support for unlocking encrypted partitions, powering off USB devices, and so on.

I've used udiskie to handle removable drives in i3.

You also didn't share your hardware specs, so it's hard to figure out why that might be happening. Begin by installing the inxi tool and then run it in the terminal:

For more information about inxi and how to use it, open a terminal and enter inxi --help or man inxi. Or point your web browser to https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm.

https://github.com/smxi/inxi

Upon request, I can post inxi details of my laptop.

>> No, truly utilitarian websites look and function like this: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm

To some extent, the majority determines what is utilitarian. Once Bootstrap achieved mass familiarity, it became utilitarian -- because almost everyone knows how to interact with it, the flow, the location of the information. The site you shared is indeed utilitarian, but it is also unfamiliar and hence makes it more difficult to find the required information at a glance.

INXI : [ https://github.com/smxi/inxi ]

The inxi script (https://github.com/smxi/inxi) can tell you this plus a ton of other stuff. Install inxi, and use something like this to run it and save the results: