On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 17:06 +0000, Michael wrote: > what XFCE offers for mounting removable block devices and if > something is amiss with that.
Thelma, I use XFCE as well. I think (its been years since I set it up) what you want is xfce-extra/thunar-volman to provide a "GUI file manager" type of click-to-mount-a-device interface.