On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:57:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:39:16 +1000 > Alex Samad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:22:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > ... > > > > > > This is just wrong; HAL *doesn't automount anything* on its own. It > > > > > merely passes information to a *volume manager*, which can be > > > > > configured > > > > > to do whatever you want. I run HAL, and I've never had devices > > > > > automounted. When I tried once more, before firing off this message, > > > > > lo > > > > > and behold my USB key did indeed automount, but I investigated and > > > > > realized that it was some component of xfce that was doing it. When I > > > > > unchecked the box "Settings / Removable Drives and Media / Storage / > > > > > Mount removable drives when hot-plugged", the old behavior returned. > > > > isn't this because it writes out HAL efi files ? > > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi > > Not sure what you mean; I currently have xfce's automounting enabled, > and that file you mention is virtually empty (it contains a couple of > commented out examples, and not much else. I also have the xfce4 automount options off and it looks to me like it has set them in this file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<!--
Some examples how to use hal fdi files for system preferences
You can either uncomment the examples here or put them in a seperate
.fdi
file.
-->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<!--
The following shows how to hint gnome-volume-manager and other
programs
that honor the storage.automount_enabled_hint to not mount
non-removable
media.
-->
<!--
<device>
<match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
<match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint"
type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
-->
</deviceinfo>
What I was trying to suggest is that you were using hal even though you
thought you were not.
A
>
> Celejar
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