On Sun, Aug 12 2012, Diogo F. S. Ramos wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> It's the thing that lets you mount USB drives and shutdown without the >> use of sudo, for instance! It's a big deal, and the main reason that I >> ended up using stumpwm inside xfce, instead of on its own. > > Mounting USB drives is an interesting problem. Not that StumpWM should > do everything, but still.
Well the idea here wouldn't be that stumpwm itself was doing it, but that it was tying into polkit or something, using the right tool for the job. > I don't know about other distributions, but on Ubuntu one can mount > things using `umount' so you don't need to use `sudo' nor mess with > `fstab'. There are certainly workarounds (pmount?), but a *lot* of stuff can be made easier with proper authentication policy. NetworkManager is another one that really relies on authentication. Incidentally, WPA2 wireless security management is another big reason I decided not to run bare stumpwm. > Some time ago I tried to code something with DBUS so it would automount > stuff, but it was too much for me. I have to admit I've failed to write Dbus scripts, as well. _______________________________________________ Stumpwm-devel mailing list Stumpwm-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/stumpwm-devel
