Re: Automount
On 01/10/12 at 01:46pm, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> > Christian Dysthe <cdysthe@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > On 01/10/12 at 06:36pm, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> > >> Christian Dysthe <cdysthe@gmail.com> writes:
> > >>
> > >> > I've been running a relatively minimal desktop for years (Pekwm/hint2).
> > >> > I haven't had many devices to connect to my computer so I have mounted
> > >> > as needed. Over the last couple of years I've gathered devices I like to
> > >> > connect to my computer like cameras, phones and a USB drive so I thought
> > >> > it might be time to look into getting automount working. What's the
> > >> > easiest way to do this without running Gnome (or KDE)?
> > >> >
> > >> > I'm running Sid
> > >>
> > >> I have installed usbmount that automatically mount and unmount USB mass
> > >> storage devices.
> > >
> > > Will USB mount work with a phone and MicroSD cards in the card reader on
> > > the laptop? I've tested in Gnome and both mounts there.
> >
> > I don't have any of them so I don't know. However, you can try.
>
> I believe either thunar or pcmanfm (graphical file managers) come with all that automount stuff preconfigured.
> so you could just aptitude install pcmanfm, or something, if you want a graphical file manager to handle that.
> I'm not sure what other graphical bloat they're likely to bring with them.
> Thunar, iirc, is part of the XFCE desktop, but I don't think you need to install xfce to use it.
> To my knowledge, they both use gtk.
Thanks. I found that I can start Thunar as a daemon which gives me automount.
I'm using MC for file management, but I guess I could use Thunar since it'll
be running at all times anyway doing automount for me.
>
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