Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-03 Thread Adam Carter
> Until one day one of their bright spark techies had a brilliant idea. They > hired a bunch of pretty girls wearing tight skimpy "New! Improved! Check > Our > Promotion!" outfits to stand outside the front door handing out free > complimentary CDs. > > Yes, you guessed it. Within the hour the peri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:15 on Friday 04 February 2011, walt did opine thusly: > On 02/02/2011 09:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt > > did > > > > opine thusly: > >> As much as I like the convenience of automountin

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-03 Thread walt
On 02/02/2011 09:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt did opine thusly: As much as I like the convenience of automounting as a luser, all of my bofh instincts cry out that lusers shouldn't be allowed to mount a filesystem! Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt did opine thusly: > On 02/02/2011 11:23 AM, John wrote: > > I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8 > > All seems to be well apart from > > a) Normal Users cannot shutdown > > b) Normal Users cannot automount using xfce (can th

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-02 Thread walt
On 02/02/2011 11:23 AM, John wrote: I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8 All seems to be well apart from a) Normal Users cannot shutdown b) Normal Users cannot automount using xfce (can through sudo mount). I understand very well your frustration because my gnome desktop goes through periods w