On 12/15/14 18:17, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Joseph <[1][email protected]> wrote:On 12/15/14 09:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:37:58 -0700, Joseph wrote: I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Which desktop are you using? Does it have an auto-mounter installed by default? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live I'm using XFCE4 and everytime I insert a USB with FAT or ext2/3/4 the icon pops up on a desktop but I mount them manually. -- Joseph  I remember asking on this list for instructions on how to auto-mount removable drives some time ago as well. Here's a copy of the rely I got. Hope this helps. -------------------------------------------------------------- From: Samuli Suominen <[2][email protected]> Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives To: [3][email protected] xfce-base/thunar needs to have USE="udev" enabled and xfce-extra/thunar-volman must be installed i don't see thunar-volman in your list there futhermore authorization from polkit/consolekit must be working, so you must see 'active = TRUE' line when you run `ck-list-sessions` in your Xfce's Terminal as a normal user, see this thread (first post of it): [4]http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html and like said, xfce4-mount-plugin is irrelevant, and `mount` command shouldn't be used at all for udisks maintained removable devices, instead `udisksctl mount` should be used as a normal user if you really want to mount from commandline
I'm not after auto mounting, I just want the USB icon to appear on XFCE desktop when I insert USB stick. I mount them USB by right clicking on the icon and select "mount" But for some reason or another the FAT32 is not showing up. -- Joseph
