On 12/9/13 8:15 AM, poma wrote:
On 09.12.2013 05:07, Paul Allen Newell wrote:

Hello:

I am running F19 xfce on a 32bit box (fully updated at the time of this 
test)

I have "Applications Menu -> Settings -> Removable Drives and Media" open

Under "Removable Storage":
     [checked] Mount removable drives when hot-plugged
     [checked] Mount removable drives when inserted
     [checked] Browse removable media when inserted
     [not checked] Auto-run programs on new drives and media
     [not checked] Auto-open files on new drives and media

Nothing else is checked on this or all the other tabs.

Whether I hot-plug a memory stick into the computer or plug it in before 
powering on, it never mounts the volume until I manually go to the icon 
on the desktop and tell it to "please go mount yourself"

Am I not understanding the options under "Settings -> Removable Storage"?

I first encountered this in F16 under xfce but figured I wasn't 
understanding something as I had just switched from F14 gnome where I 
could hot-plug

I have three Linux boxes and it doesn't auto mount on any of them, so I 
am not thinking it is a hardware problem to a particular machine.

This also happens with cd/dvd when inserted ... have to manually "please 
go mount yourself" (and, yes, the phraseology is intentional as I am 
rather frustrated by this)

Thanks in advance for any advice
Paul


http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/preferences#advanced_preferences
- Volume Management
$ xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-volume-management
$ xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-volume-management -s true


poma
Poma:

Thanks for reply.

Volume management is checked on as the link you provided shows

Running the command "xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-volume-management" returns the following:

Property "misc-volume-management" does not exist on channel "thunar".

The package thunar-volman is already installed on my machine (0.8.0-4.fc19).

The only other thing I can spot in your link is reference to HAL. When I hunt around to find out information, I come across the following on the xfce site for thunar-volman: " HAL is undergoing deprecation at the moment. All major distributions push for the removal of HAL in favor of DeviceKit-disks/udisk, DeviceKit-power/upower and udev" (http://wiki.xfce.org/dev/thunar-volman-udev). Everything I can see on this implies the transition as 2009 to 2010 range.

The other response from Dale suggested that I take it to the xfce general discussion site (which I intend to do after seeing if I get any more info here).

Any suggestions on what I should be looking for to better understand the problem?

Thanks,
Paul