Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
udisks +1 Google knows enough about it to lead you to the nirvana state of increased understanding. +1 very loosely: udisks needs polkit to check the current user is authorised to mount internal drives or usb drives (this threw me at first as there are two rules you need to assign) udisks

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:29:12 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: It can be done with udev rules. See webpage http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/526#null The suggested udev rule is... Thank you for the link, that is great info! I'm pleased you find it useful. I actually wrote that but wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Wang Xuerui
2014-08-06 9:18 GMT+08:00 Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com: [snip] 10. Bonus: if you use words like COM/DDE/OLE Just a side note... These 3 things don't play well with a Linux ecosystem, as you might know. They're M$ technologies after all (-: (actually they just don't exist in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 06:18:44PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote Hello, Which package(s) do I need that allow: 1. A USB drive is inserted 2. The drive is mounted in some location automatically (e.g. /media/usbstick) 3. (2) happens even when the drive is an NTFS or FAT32 drive. 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:09:32 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: It can be done with udev rules. See webpage http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/526#null The suggested udev rule is... It can also be done with sys-apps/uam, which takes care of the udev rules, but I think Alan's suggestion of udisks is

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Francisco Ares
2014-08-06 12:09 GMT-03:00 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org: On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 06:18:44PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote Hello, Which package(s) do I need that allow: 1. A USB drive is inserted 2. The drive is mounted in some location automatically (e.g. /media/usbstick)

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Wang Xuerui idontknw.w...@gmail.com wrote: Just a side note... These 3 things don't play well with a Linux ecosystem, as you might know. They're M$ technologies after all (-: Hi Wang, As you suspected, I knew the solution was not going to involve DDE/OLE. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: It can be done with udev rules. See webpage http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/526#null The suggested udev rule is... Walter, Thank you for the link, that is great info! Because this is done independantly of the GUI,

[gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Which package(s) do I need that allow: 1. A USB drive is inserted 2. The drive is mounted in some location automatically (e.g. /media/usbstick) 3. (2) happens even when the drive is an NTFS or FAT32 drive. 4. (1)-(3) happens even if I am not running a GUI 5. (1)-(3) happens even if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/08/2014 03:18, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Which package(s) do I need that allow: 1. A USB drive is inserted 2. The drive is mounted in some location automatically (e.g. /media/usbstick) 3. (2) happens even when the drive is an NTFS or FAT32 drive. 4. (1)-(3) happens even

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 10:20 Duong Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: Hal is deprecated. Try avoiding it as much as possible. that's what i'm doing, for sure!

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Sunday 27 February 2011 12:13:21 luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 10:20 Duong Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: Hal is deprecated. Try avoiding it as much as possible. that's what i'm doing, for sure! I have read all the discussion, and, unfortunately, I can't help you Luis. But I am asking the way

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Sunday 27 February 2011 13:39:49 Stéphane Guedon wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2011 12:13:21 luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 10:20 Duong Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: Hal is deprecated. Try avoiding it as much as possible. that's what i'm doing, for sure! I have read all the discussion,

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-25 at 19:42 Dale wrote: * xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin Available versions: 0.5.5 {debug} Homepage:http://www.xfce.org/ Description: Mount plugin for the Xfce panel That last one should put you on the right path for sure. hi dale, i do have the

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:31:07 -0200 schrieb luis jure l...@internet.com.uy: hello list, Hi, i'm old-fashioned and i never cared for this automount thing, but now i have two pen drives and two usb hard disks that i have to mount and umount all the time, and doing it by hand every time is

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
hi marc, It seems that for Xfce you want the Thunar Volume Manager plugin i had already installed this plugin, but it doesn't seem to do much: an icon for the device appears on the side panel, but no corresponding mount point is created under /media. when i click on the icon a Not Authorized

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-26 at 11:30 luis jure wrote: i had already installed this plugin, but it doesn't seem to do much: an icon for the device appears on the side panel, but no corresponding mount point is created under /media. when i click on the icon a Not Authorized message appears. i'm getting

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:30:45 -0200 schrieb luis jure l...@internet.com.uy: hi marc, Hi Luis, It seems that for Xfce you want the Thunar Volume Manager plugin i had already installed this plugin, but it doesn't seem to do much: an icon for the device appears on the side panel, but no

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-26 at 15:47 Marc Joliet wrote: According to the README file [0], udiskie uses consolekit to obtain necessary permissions. That means that you need to emerge xfce4-session with the use flags +consolekit. i recompiled xfce4-session with +consolekit, but the situation remains

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Christoph Brendes
Hi, for me it works (xfce 4.8 with udev and udisk) please check if you - enable the volume manager (thunar preferences: Advanced tab) - you are in the plugdev group On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:30:45 -0200 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: It seems that for Xfce you want the Thunar Volume

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-26 at 16:17 Christoph Brendes wrote: Hi, for me it works (xfce 4.8 with udev and udisk) please check if you - enable the volume manager (thunar preferences: Advanced tab) - you are in the plugdev group yes to both... :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Christoph Brendes
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:27:11 -0200 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2011-02-26 at 16:17 Christoph Brendes wrote: Hi, for me it works (xfce 4.8 with udev and udisk) please check if you - enable the volume manager (thunar preferences: Advanced tab) - you are in the plugdev

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:14:32 -0200 schrieb luis jure l...@internet.com.uy: on 2011-02-26 at 15:47 Marc Joliet wrote: According to the README file [0], udiskie uses consolekit to obtain necessary permissions. That means that you need to emerge xfce4-session with the use flags +consolekit.

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread Duong Yang Ha Nguyen
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Christoph Brendes wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:27:11 -0200 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2011-02-26 at 16:17 Christoph Brendes wrote: Hi, for me it works (xfce 4.8 with udev and udisk) please check if you - enable the volume manager (thunar

[gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-25 Thread luis jure
hello list, i'm old-fashioned and i never cared for this automount thing, but now i have two pen drives and two usb hard disks that i have to mount and umount all the time, and doing it by hand every time is beginning to be very annoying... i see that distributions like ubuntu and others have

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
luis jure wrote: hello list, i'm old-fashioned and i never cared for this automount thing, but now i have two pen drives and two usb hard disks that i have to mount and umount all the time, and doing it by hand every time is beginning to be very annoying... i see that distributions like