How to mount a external USB drive automatically

[Joe Zeff]

On 05/09/2013 02:31 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> F18, XFCE, mount removable media is checked.  When I plugin my external
> HD, it shows up on the desktop, unmounted.

I've been doing a little searching at the Xfce support forum.  One 
suggestion was to make sure that thunar was running as a daemon.  If 
not, run this from Run Program:

thunar --daemon

It didn't work for me, but it might for you.