automounting in XFCE 4.8 under Fedora 16

[Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider]

From: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: automounting in XFCE 4.8 under Fedora 16
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:17:43 -0600

> Am Freitag, den 02.12.2011, 11:08 -0500 schrieb Peter Frederick
> Patel-Schneider:
>> I have problems with auotmounting in XFCE 4.8 under Fedora 16.  I think
>> that I have diagnosed part of this problem.
>> 
>> 
>> When XFCE starts, Thunar is not automatically started.  Therefore there
>> is nothing to handle the mounting part of plugging in a new volume.
> 
> Thunar does not mount volumes, thunar-volman does. Make sure it is
> installed, enabled in Thunar's preferences unter "Advanced" -> "Enable
> Volume Management" and configured.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph

I already did that.   

The problem is, I beleive, that thunar-volman doesn't get called if
thunar isn't running, and thunar isn't start automatically.  Once thunar
is running automouting happens correctly.

peter