On 10/08/2013 10:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>>> On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: >>>>> On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>>>>> Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do >>>>>> have >>>>>> xfce4-mount-plugin installed. >>>>>> >>>>>> box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mount >>>>>> xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin-0.6.4 >>>>>> >>>>>> But I still can't auto-mount my removable drives. So I thought that >>>>>> perhaps some further configuration had to be done. That question >>>>>> still >>>>>> remains, how do I do it? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>> hi, >>>>> >>>>> you need to emerge just one package: xfce-extra/thunar-volman (it >>>>> may pull some dependencies); it >>>>> does what you asked for >>>>> >>>>> victor >>>>> >>>> Thanks for your response. To save further confusion, which is >>>> something >>>> I should have done right from the word go, here's a list of all the >>>> xfce >>>> packages I have installed on my system: >>>> box0=; equery list '*xfce*' >>>> * Searching for *xfce* ... >>>> [IP-] [ ] dev-util/xfce4-dev-tools-4.10.0:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] x11-terms/xfce4-terminal-0.4.8:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.1-r200:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.1-r300:3 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.10.0:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.10.0:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-appfinder-4.10.0-r1:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.10.0-r1:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.10.0-r1:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-settings-4.10.0:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.10.0:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin-0.6.4:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-extra/xfce4-notifyd-0.2.2:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.5:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.3:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] xfce-extra/xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.4.3:0 >>> >>> 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): >>> >>> 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 >>> >> Thanks. >> >> thunar/thunar-valman seem to be installed on my system as well: >> equery list '*thunar*' >> * Searching for *thunar* ... >> [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/thunar-1.6.2:0 >> [IP-] [ ] xfce-extra/thunar-volman-0.8.0:0 >> >> >> 'ck-list-sessions' when run as a regular user returns: >> ** Message: Failed to connect to the D-Bus daemon: Failed to connect to >> socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory > > The post covers also this, it looks like you have forgot to add 'dbus' > and 'consolekit' to the runlevels: > > # rc-update add consolekit default > # rc-update add dbus default > # /etc/init.d/consolekit start > > That will start dbus and ConsoleKit on boot as required, the system > instances. > > Then there is the user instances, also covered by the post. For > example, running Xfce using `startx` from text console: > > ~/.xinitrc file in your home directory has the content of: > > exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch > > And then you can run > > $ startx > > But like said, this is all covered by the forums post. It's like a > checklist. I've followed the instructions described in the post you supplied by way of the link above, and now I have my removable drives auto-mounting.
Thanks very much.
