various config questions

[Joost Kremers]

hi list,

i've recently installed slackintosh with xfce4 on an older ibook g3. i've
been using xfce for a couple of years now and am very happy with it, but
currently, with xfce 4.4.1, i'm having a few config issues that i can't
seem to figure out how to solve. perhaps someone here can help me with
them.

* how can i prevent a program being called from another program from being
  moved to the workspace the calling program is on? e.g. if i have Terminal
  on ws5 and firefox on ws6, and i press the mouse button 2 on a link in
  e.g. mutt running in Terminal, i want firefox to open that link but i
  don't want firefox to be moved to ws5. (somehow this wasn't a problem on
  xfce4.2, but i haven't been able to replicate my settings...)

* since slackware/slackintosh12 comes with hal and dbus, i have installed
  the volume manager plugin for thunar. automounting works very nicely, but
  i would like to pass additional mount options to (especially)
  vfat-filesystems. is there a way to do this?

* also with thunar's volume manager, when i plug in a usb stick or cd, i'd
  like it to be automounted, but i don't want thunar to open, nor do i want
  to autorun programs or auto-open files on it. however, unsetting those
  options in the volume manager's configuration has no effect. i can
  uncheck the options and close the window, but when i open the
  configuration window again, the options are checked again.

* lastly, is there a way for automounted media to show up in the mount
  plugin (other than adding them to /etc/fstab)? previously, on slackintosh
  11 with xfce 4.2, i used a debian program called usbmount to automount
  usb drives, and those showed up in the mount plugin (although they
  weren't in /etc/fstab), so i'm kinda surprised that the devices mounted
  by thunar+volman do not.

if anyone can provide some hints on any of these points, i'd be very
grateful!

TIA

-- 
Joost Kremers, PhD
University of Cologne
Institute for German Language and Literature
Albertus Magnus Platz
50923 Cologne, Germany
Tel. +49 221 / 4703807