Since this list was meant to be for tapping into combined knowledge, here's a problem I haven't found anything about with some searching.
A box running Ubuntu 22 has a weird way of handling smartphones and mounting them as multimedia device (they're not USB storage any more). Graphically things work but that's not a suitable way to go about things as it prevents the use of rsync. How can I prevent the GUI desktop from touching the smartphone with some kind of automagic mechanism? Mounting the phone with mtpfs works but only with great difficulties and requires a ninimum of 2 atttempts. Something in the system opens the device and blocks it, the desktop shows it as mounted but the mount command shows nothing (i.e. it's not a block device or FUSE file system). The trick is to unmount the phone on the desktop, mount it as mtpfs, and do this at least twice in the race against the desktop while answering Android 13 questions about whether letting the phone be mounted is acceptable to the phone's owner. Arrghhhh. So question, how to make the desktop automagic shut up? Does someone with Ubuntu internal knowledge have an idea? Thank you, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
