Wes Frazier <wes.fraz...@members.fsf.org> wrote: > I apologize if this is the wrong mailing list I was a bit torn as to the > exact list I should use for this. I am a new NetBSD user and I just > largely completed an initial install of NetBSD 7.1 with XFCE and various > packages from 2017Q1. > > Anyway I have the system mostly installed and configured to my > satisfaction. However I wanted to see if there was a > prescribed/recommended way to get the automatic mounting and unmounting > of removable media working for file managers such as Thunar. I am > somewhat comfortable mounting and unmounting volumes from the > command-line but wanted to make sure there wasn't a better way to > integrate Thunar/XFCE into that process. > > I haven't had much luck playing with gnome-mount or gnome-volume-manager > to assist.
This is bound to be a little adventure. From what I understand, automounting of removable media in Xfce/Thunar is udev-dependent, hence Linux-dependent, so unless something has changed in the meantime, I'm not sure that this will work. You could try a native NetBSD solution with amd ( man amd ), which would be independent of Xfce/Thunar, but this would require a little research. See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2008/10/06/msg002134.html for an old thread on amd, but probably there are more recent attempts. You might have better luck with Lumina ( https://lumina-desktop.org/ ), which is BSD-friendly. There are positive signs that automounting of removable media works on Lumina on TrueOS ( https://discourse.trueos.org/t/how-come-usb-devices-dont-show-up-in-other-desktops/1168 ), but it's not clear whether this applies to NetBSD as well. If you pursue this issue, let us know what you come up with. :-) C.