On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:01:54 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote: [...]
>>>>>>>> On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: >>>>>>>>> Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and >>>>>>>>> put an >>>>>>>>> icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on >>>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>>> would then mount it to /media [...] > So hal is actually meant to mount the usb stick automatically? Not just show > an > icon in thunar? How about CDs? I don't know that; I guess that depends on the "philosophy" of xfce/thunar. To the normal user it probably does not matter exactly when the mounting happens, as long as he/she can click on the icon at any time and access the media. > Plugging in a usb stick for a new user in xfce gave some interesting although > in > conclusive results. First of all I noticed that the usb stick also appears as > an > icon on the desktop. I just hadn't seen it with my normal user in amongst the > clutter. > > Secondly, double-clicking the icon produced this message in .xsession-errors: > > ** (xfdesktop:14095): CRITICAL **: xfdesktop_file_icon_activated: assertion > `info' failed > > and choosing the context menu 'mount' cmd pops up a dialog saying "no > mount point found for /dev/sda1" Did you add the new user to the plugdev group? > Strangely this doesn't happen for my normal user (could it be because my > normal user formatted it and gave it its permissions?). With my normal > user I am now back to square one: I have to go into thunar and select the > icon which appears before it mounts. > > In fact this is the same for cds. As I said above, I do not know what is supposed to happen. I have the impression, from looking around on freedesktop.org and related sites, that the desktop environments generally strive to provide easy access to the media in such a way that the user does not even have to worry about the concept of mounting. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
