Re: [DNG] automount, mount, and USB sticks

[kpb]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:04:22 -0400 (EDT)
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote:

 Spacefm has the ability to use several different methods to
 mount removable media.  If you install either pmount or udevil,
 it can use them.  By default, I believe it automatically
 chooses which method it wants to use, based on what you have
 installed.
 
[snip]
 
 On Jessie, I have noticed that some applications don't properly 
 detect the mounted removable media if it's mounted this way.  
 See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774871
 

I shall do a base install of Devuan and add Xorg/window manager and have a play 
with this on Friday and see what I can find in the way of bugs.

Thanks
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kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk
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Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

[kpb]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:09:45 -0400
Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:

 Cheer up Svante. This isn't for your corporation's web servers, it's
 for the guy with a desktop, the system's only user, a guy who already
 has root but just doesn't want to do su all the time, who just wants
 automounting to happen.
 

That guy would be me. 

I think that xfce4 with automounting enabled will cover most of us 
desktop/laptop users as a (suggested) default. xfce4 works with 2d or even VESA 
video and so can work on older machines. 

xfce4 can be made to look like Windows XP (panel at the bottom, notifications 
on the right and applications on a menu on the left) which almost all of my 
family, friends, neighbours and students are familiar with. That reduces the 
'unfamiliarity' of e.g. a laptop handed round a meeting or an old desktop in a 
cafe for Web surfing.

cheers
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keithpeter
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