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: 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