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. When Thunar is running this mounting does happen, at least for USB devices.
There are lots of ways to start Thunar. Some of them start Thunar as a daemon and some of them don't. The problem with starting Thunar as a non-daemon is that Thunar will probably eventually go away, and then automounting will no longer work.
It thus appears to me that XFCE should start up Thunar as a daemon during startup. This should happen before any connected external storage devices are recognized, so that volumes in them can be mounted.
How can this be arranged? Should this be escalted up to a general XFCE forum, or is this specific to XFCE under Fedora?
The other part of my automounting problem appears to be that Thunar doesn't have the same notion of removable drives as does the XFCE desktop manager. I have an external IDE disk. When this disk is plugged in (albeit in a slightly unusual way, as the disk is in a removable disk tray in the CD slot of a Thinkpad), the XFCE desktop correctly shows an icon for it and labels it as a removable volume. However, this volume is not automounted, even when Thunar is running.
How can Thunar be coerced to automount this volume?
Peter F. Patel-Schneider Bell Labs Research
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
From: Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert@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
From: Matt Hausmann matt@u6.co.za Subject: Re: automounting in XFCE 4.8 under Fedora 16 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 17:50:44 -0600
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.
If you want it to automount, why don't you just add it to your /etc/fstab?
This is for a laptop, which I power off, and quite regularly stick a USB stick (not always the same one) in during power on. Yes, there are lots of ways to get around the issue, but it would be nice to have it all work correctly.
peter
Am Freitag, den 02.12.2011, 11:28 -0500 schrieb Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider:
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.
Can you check if you have the same problem with a freshly created user account?
Regards, Christoph
From: Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert@googlemail.com Subject: Re: automounting in XFCE 4.8 under Fedora 16 Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 12:41:39 -0600
Am Freitag, den 02.12.2011, 11:28 -0500 schrieb Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider:
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.
Can you check if you have the same problem with a freshly created user account?
Regards, Christoph
Yes.
Using a fresh user account, thunar is not automatically started - at least it doesn't show up in a process listing, and nothing is automounted. Adding thunar --daemon to the autostarted applications helps, but doesn't catch devices that are already present at login.
peter
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