On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:45:43 +0530 Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 11 December 2013 12:58 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:16:47 -0500 > > Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > >> On 12/10/2013 12:38 PM, Tixy wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:25 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >>>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:03:33 +0000 > >>>> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm trying to move over to spacefm from nautilus because it > >>>>> automount > >> s > >>>>> my usb drives and kindle, but I've hit a snag. I occasionally > >>>>> need to mount a partition via shfs of my website on a remote > >>>>> server, but I cant see how to do that in spacefm. Can anyone > >>>>> help me please? > >>>>> > >>>> Answering my own question, neither pcmanfm nor spacefm could do > >>>> it, bu > >> t > >>>> thunar can. The first two also didn’t show hidden files [thi > nk > >>>> '.foobar'] but thunar can, so I'm moving over to thunar as it, so > >>>> far at least, does everything that I've asked of it. > >>>> > >>>> Thunar can - > >>>> * automount usb drives, > >>> > >>> pcmanfm can do that, in pcmanfm it's a tickbox under the 'Volume > >>> Management' tab of the Preferences menu. > >>> > >>>> * mount sftp drives, > >>> > >>> pcmanfm can do that, if you have gnome vfs packages installed > >>> (gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse I beleive). > >>> > >>>> * show hidden files, > >>> > >>> pcmanfm do that, it's the 'Show Hidden' option in the 'view' menu, > >>> and it will remember you're last preference for that setting. > >>> > >>> And I would expect other file managers to also support these > >>> things. > >>> > >> Have you checked out Nemo? It aims to be what Nautilus > >> was... http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198 > >> > >> > > Thanks for this Dave. I had just installed 'nemo' when I installed > > 'cinnamon' to try out, but hadn't thought to try nemo, but now I > > have, and so far it does the job! > > > > Thanks again > > Sharon. > > > Hi Sharon, > > Do you have Gnome installed? I have nautilus installed (default > Debian install) as well and it seems to automount my usb disks and my > kindle and my Kobo reader just fine. Only partially, I've got some of it installed but its not something that I go into, I mainly stay in fluxbox as it is so configurable and does exactly what I want. I'm using 'nemo' now, and things like my kindle appear when plugged in but need to be manually mounted, but I can live with that. > > Maybe I'm missing something. > > Re hidden files, it's a preference - see attachment. > Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 Registered Linux user 561944
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