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XFCE howto automount media
hi
notes to myself but anyone having issues or want to mount /umount removable media eg usb sticks and optical discs read on 1) Ensure you have package installed thunar-volman 2) Applications Menu -> Settings -> Session and Startup Tab to Application Autostart tick box for XFCE Volume Daemon 3) Applications Menu -> Settings ->Removable Drives and Media tick box Mount removable media when inserted 4) When you insert an USB stick or removable data disc you are likely to get a notification dialog box and in Thunar contents are now viewable. OPTIONAL 5) In the settings box (4) tick Browse removable media when inserted Causes any usb stick etc when inserted to auto load Thunar at the relevant folder. Some people may prefer to not use this as you lose focus on your current task. YMMV 6) Use the icon in Thunar to "umount" removable media or "eject" optical media 
7) If eject or umount fails or loading fails, run groups to ensure you are member of cdrom audio video plugdev :: Code :: groups
gordon dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev users fuse scanner netdev 8) The ejection of the optical media is done by sudo eject so check that sudo is enabled for your runlevel in sysv-rc-conf 9) The umounting of usb sticks etc uses sudo umount so again check sudo is good Back to top |
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nope does not rely on eject
the eject function is now exo-utils 2) if auto-mount stuff is not needed you do not need to install the volman but instead rely on xfce4-mount-plugin which provides /usr/lib/xfce4-mount-plugin/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-mount-plugin Back to top |
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Is this on Debian (or a derivative -Knoppix)? and if so which repo?
Which version of xfce? Which login manager (if any) are you using? So many questions as I can get xfce on a Debian stable derivative using SLiM to auto-mount, but it doesn't work in Testing or sid. Back to top |
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hi
debian sid for me a bit more for you if it helps have no entries in fstab. uninstall the thunar-volman open thunar insert disc or usb click on icon should mount it 2) The reason why I started writing these online notes is because I could see a 1 second notification....I now know what it says.....when I click to umount the usb....its says....its writing data to the disk but STILL umounts when I was I was using volman.....I could not get rid of that error. I will rewrite above stuff when I (hopefully) help you. :: Code :: inxi -F
System: Host: sid.sid.com Kernel: 3.0.0-2-686-pae i686 (32 bit) Desktop Xfce 4.8.3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid Machine: System: ECS product: 945GCT-M2 version: 1.x serial: 1131 Mobo: ECS model: 945GCT-M2 version: ECS Bios: American Megatrends version: 080012 date: 05/14/2008 CPU: Dual core Pentium CPU E5200 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) Clock Speeds: 1: 2494.327 MHz 2: 2494.327 MHz Graphics: Card: nVidia G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] X.org: 1.11.1 driver: nvidia tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root Audio: Card: Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: HDA Intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24 Network: Card: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:21:97:76:2d:da Drives: HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (9.9% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD800JD 80.0GB Partition: ID: / size: 16G used: 2.6G (17%) fs: ext3 Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed. Info: Processes: 97 Uptime: 20 min Memory: 183.2/2025.5MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24 2) My repo is deb ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian sid main contrib non-free 3) version is in inxi 4) I am using login gdm3 Use sysv-rc-conf to disable slim and try gdm3 pls Back to top |
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EDIT
ok I just tested slim (altho not using autologin) and no mounting of disks occurs ok found error file which is /home/name/.xsession-errors 2) a google suggested using an .xinitrc but not sure if slim sees it so first test create an autostart entry to force thunar to run as a daemon has failed BTW gdm3 has its one initrc in /etc/xdg/xfce4 3) I am now looking at this page wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ConsoleKit but first attempt failed. I did notice that in xfce settings I could add policy kit to autostart but reading the file its name is polkit-gnome-(etc) and it appears to relate to /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-gnome-authentication while if you are using slim, you may prefer the generic policy kit? any first testing is a fail 4) ok so this page wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Thunar mentions the order and :: Quote :: Note that ck-launch-session comes before dbus-launch. If you do them the other way around you might get "Not authorized" errors when you try to mount your driveand so links to bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=289 but Debian does not use storage group udev rule it does exist in /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage etc but no group in /etc/group YMMV Back to top |
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ok I think I know what I did wrong.
in the google showing to use an .xinitrc......booting into xfce4 is the last step but /etc/slim.conf has already actioned that Hopefully on the weekend I will have a working slim.conf that uses the thunar arch wiki rule of exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch <your wm> I am not sure if I also need a thunar --daemon setting but I feel we need to edit slim.conf and not create any xinitrc? Back to top |
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hi anticapitalista
just to let you know there is a post at aptosid forum on this matter as well aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1632 There are a number of claims in this thread 2 of which I think are relevant a) we need to start policykit but which one? b) slim is no longer maintained. 2) in google slim maintainer I found this bug which appears to have no reply from the maintainer bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614749 :: Quote :: There is still no fix to make SLiM work with consolekit >0.4.1-4
SLiM works with consolekit 0.4.1-4 Therefore I can not help you. suggest you look at the size of installing gdm3 versus slim ii) suggest you look at not using automount if you prefer slim good luck Back to top |
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Thanks for all that aus9. I should have some time this weekend to try them out.
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while playing around with E17 with no xfce I found
usbmount :: Quote ::
This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are removed. The mountpoints (/media/usb[0-7] by default), filesystem types to consider, and mount options are configurable. When multiple devices are plugged in, the first available mountpoint is automatically selected. If the device provides a model name, a symbolic link /var/run/usbmount/MODELNAME pointing to the mountpoint is automatically created. The script that does the mounting is called by the udev daemon. Therefore, USBmount requires a 2.6 (or newer) Linux kernel. Firewire devices are also supported by USBmount. USBmount is intended as a lightweight solution which is independent of a desktop environment. Users which would like an icon to appear when an USB device is plugged in should use the pmount and hal packages instead. Back to top |
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