Noob Part 2: Media automounting ...

[Andrew Conkling]

On 6/19/06, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:44:17 -0400, Eli Crumrine wrote:
>
> > "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:58:12
> > -0400
> >
> > > Okay, now I really see how ignorant I am.  I've really been doing
> > > too much server stuff and haven't been hacking the 'ole desktop --
> > > just using GNOME and not caring how it worked.  I've started
> > > reading up on HAL as well as integration with udev, dbus and the
> > > various gnome-* components (-mount, -power, -volume-manager,
> > > etc...).  Damn I've really let me desktop knowledge slip in this
> > > age of kernel 2.6 and "it just works."
> > >
> > > Anyhoo, I assume my older XFCE 4.2.3 install on Fedora Core 5 is not
> > > HAL-aware or doesn't have various support agents yet?  If that is
> > > the case, based on what I read, I should just go ahead and create
> > > the /etc/fstab** or automount entries as I wish -- correct?
> > >
> > > Any other insight, RTFM responses (especially if this is documented
> > > somewhere and I'm just an ignorant fool that didn't see this),
> > > etc... are always appreciated!
> > >
> >
> > That is correct - no xfce components use hal.
>
> This is wrong. Thunar makes use of HAL to display available devices. It
> doesn't mount devices automatically, though, you have to click on the
> devices in the sidepane to mount them and open them in Thunar.

Say what you will, but I got good mileage out of running
gnome-volume-manager inside of Xfce.