Lightweight desktop

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:35 AM, ufa <ufa at technotroll.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an old eeepc with disk limitation (4 GB ssd), so I have to use a desktop with small disk footprint.
> I did a minimal fedora 17 instalation, and installed LXDE group. It is working good, but I have to deal with a problem:
> I cannot see usb drives in file manager, it does not auto mount. But I can mount them in command line.
> Maybe it have something to do with the way I am using lxde? I am starting it with startx, so using init 3.
> Do I have to switch to init 5 to make it work? I don't mind using init 5, but how I do it without installing lots of packages?

This I found easily:

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE:Questions#Does_LXDE_automount_plugged_in_removable_devices_like_USB_drives.3F

Looks like you may need to install "hal", but it's no longer in
Fedora, perhaps the functionality needed has already been added to
udev? Hopefully their FAQ is just out of date...

I can't image you don't already have udev installed but you did do a
minimal install. Also, one thing I read said look in the file manager
on the left side, LXDE doesn't show mounted devices on the desktop.

Richard