On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Michael P. Soulier <msoul...@digitaltorque.ca> wrote: > On 04/02/09 Alan McKinnon said: > >> Meanwhile, trying to run KDE or Gnome on a box without hal is becoming more >> and more painful with each update. Even xorg is getting in on the hal game >> and using hal to auto-configure input devices. > > That explains why even on Ubuntu I shut off dbus and hal, and run fluxbox. > > In Gentoo I'm using XFCE4 right now without hal. I can mount my own drives.
I thought it only did the automounting stuff if you were in the plugdev group. That's the way the docs make it sound anyway. Also, you can selectively disable hal automounting on certain devices. For example I do not want it to automount CDROM but I do want it to automount my USB memory stick. Of course just getting rid of it completely does the job, too. :) Paul
