The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin [LWN.net]

The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin

Posted Feb 13, 2008 22:27 UTC (Wed) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287)
Parent article: The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin

Suite. I've been playing with Xfce on Fedora 8 the past few days. I would like to use it as my regular desktop -- my home pc is resource constrained -- but I haven't been able to figure out how to make hald mount removable media e.g. usb pen drive under Xfce. Works fine under Gnome. All the further I get with Xfc3 is a few flashes from the pen drive led, an entry in /proc/bus/usb/001, and a .hal_usb file in /media. But no /media/disk, and nothing in fstab or mtab. Anyone with a clue? Thanks!

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The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin

Posted Feb 14, 2008 2:45 UTC (Thu) by nirik (subscriber, #71) [Link]

Sure, 'yum install thunar-volman' and then fire up Thunar, then go to 'Edit' -> 'Preferences'
-> 'Advanced', and enable 'Enable Volume Management' and then click on 'configure'. 

You can get thunar-volman to do all sorts of things on removal drives and media.

The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin

Posted Feb 14, 2008 3:29 UTC (Thu) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287) [Link]

Thanks! Works like a chump! The thunar_volman gui is pretty woofy, but it does the job :). And it came up with all the removable media auto-mount stuff already configured. This is pretty important for me, as I sneakernet my work backups home on the pen drive. I'll assume the lack of thunar_volman in Fedora's default pup Xfce package is an oversight. Hope they fix it!