[Thunar-dev] automount

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello Benedikt
> 
> what is the reason for not automounting inserted media but waiting for 
> the user to click on it? It is especially confusing when in a /media/dir
> remove/insert and a manual refresh or explicit mount is needed to see 
> the contents again.

The reason to not auto-mount in Thunar is simply that you can have any
number of Thunar instances running at the same time, and all of them
would try to mount the media. That's why auto-mounting in Thunar should
be done as a daemon (linked to thunar-vfs), which simply mounts the new
volumes reported by the ThunarVfsVolumeManager. If anybody wants to
start work on this, feel free to do so.

Concerning the refresh problem: Looks like Thunar is not built with
Gamin support or Gamin is not running.

> thanks
> Jani

Benedikt