Wes Frazier <wes.frazier%members.fsf.org@localhost> wrote:
I apologize if this is the wrong mailing list I was a bit torn as to
the
exact list I should use for this. I am a new NetBSD user and I just
largely completed an initial install of NetBSD 7.1 with XFCE and
various
packages from 2017Q1.
Anyway I have the system mostly installed and configured to my
satisfaction. However I wanted to see if there was a
prescribed/recommended way to get the automatic mounting and
unmounting
of removable media working for file managers such as Thunar. I am
somewhat comfortable mounting and unmounting volumes from the
command-line but wanted to make sure there wasn't a better way to
integrate Thunar/XFCE into that process.
I haven't had much luck playing with gnome-mount or
gnome-volume-manager
to assist.
This is bound to be a little adventure.
From what I understand, automounting of removable media in Xfce/Thunar
is udev-dependent, hence Linux-dependent, so unless something has
changed in the meantime, I'm not sure that this will work.
You could try a native NetBSD solution with amd ( man amd ), which
would
be independent of Xfce/Thunar, but this would require a little
research. See
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2008/10/06/msg002134.html for
an old thread on amd, but probably there are more recent attempts.
You might have better luck with Lumina ( https://lumina-desktop.org/ ),
which is BSD-friendly. There are positive signs that automounting of
removable media works on Lumina on TrueOS (
https://discourse.trueos.org/t/how-come-usb-devices-dont-show-up-in-other-desktops/1168
), but it's not clear whether this applies to NetBSD as well.
If you pursue this issue, let us know what you come up with. :-)
C.