On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 08:55:58AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > On 2/25/19 8:48 AM, Curt wrote: > >On 2019-02-25, Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> wrote: > >>> > >> > >>This is not satisfactory. Surely there is a way to neutralize a running > >>gvfsd/fuse mount on a device without reinstalling to whole OS. > >> > >>Mark > >> > > > >man gvfsd says: > > > > ENVIRONMENT > > GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE > > If this environment variable is set, gvfsd will not start the fuse filesystem. > > > >So maybe something like > > > > GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE=1 > > export GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE > > > >might be of aid in your neutralization efforts. > > Doesn't work. This is a question of context: the above magic incantations should happen in a place where the gvfsd is capable of inheriting this environment. Probably at your Gnome session's start, wherever that is... [...] > > gconftool --type Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount false [...] > I don't use Gnome/Nautilus. MATE and/or Xfce. [...] ...or however that is called under those variants (note that gconftool probably is relevant to Xfce, it definitely is to MATE -- how the configuration bit paths are there is left as an exercise to the reader: shudder: on the one hand people say that editing text config files is "too hard" for "normal users", on the other hand they dump non-interfaces on them that are crude key-value databases with an excuse of an editor (gconf, Mozilla's about:config) bolted on and with an implicit "whack- the-key" game. But I disgress). Cheers -- t
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