On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 07:57:47AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > With all the recent discussion about DEs (Cinnamon, Gnome, Mate, etc), I > just thought I'd throw this in here... > > For the longest time, I simply used a window manager. In the beginning, it > was FVWM, but later I took a liking to IceWM. As opposed to a full-blown > Desktop Environment, I liked the speed and simplicity of a window manager.
I use IceWM, and also FVWM1 (on my "sparta" devuan-with-mdev install). I prefer the simplicity, and I enjoy having something faster than *any* desktop, xfce included. > The only drawback is that window manager doesn't seem to do automounting of > plugged-in devices. I went looking for a solution, and found this page: In my book, that's an advantage. Of course a significant percentage of the times that I plug in a USB device I'm trying to repartition it. > https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Automounting > > It says, among other things, that udev can be configured to handle > automounting. That's nice, but since systemd has polluted udev beyond > repair, I'm wondering if Devuan can be set up to handle it better, perhaps > with vdev. Or is there a better way? Use "mount" ;-) Locally, I sometimes use a script I named "mat", which mounts a device (shortname) at the "usual" location, creating the mountpoint if needed. This isn't the version I use, but it gives you the idea: #!/bin/sh [ -b "/dev/$1" ] || exit 3 mkdir -p "/mnt/$1" || exit 2 mount -o users,rw "/dev/$1" "/mnt/$1" Something like this could be run from mdev as a helper when a partition is detetected, or you could use "mount -a -T /etc/autotab", or you could use a hotplug helper along the lines of #!/bin/sh [ -n "$DEVTYPE" -a "$ACTION" = "add" ] || exit mkdir -p "/mnt/$DEVNAME" mount -o users,rw "/dev/$DEVNAME" "/mnt/$DEVNAME" Or you could parse the output of nlmon... There are no shortage of ways to set it up. > I believe that people who are opposed to systemd are similar to me - we > prefer simplicity over complex solutions, and are not impressed by bells > and whistles. Thus, I think people who are attracted to Devuan would be a > good market for a simple desktop based on IceWM. True. However, we're often able to set it up ourselves. Thanks, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng