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Author: shraptor
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Subject: Re: [Dng] automounting in a window manager
On 2015-06-01 16:22, Rob Owens wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robert Storey" <robert.storey@???>
>>
>> First, thanks to all who replied.
>>
>> To me, the ideal solution would be if this was a user-configurable
>> option.
>> Would be great if you could, for example, just stick something into
>> .bashrc
>> for any user to allow automounting of USB devices, no matter which DE
>> or
>> window manager was being used. But I know it doesn't work that way.
>> Just
>> saying, it would make sense.
>>
>> pmount - yes, thanks for reminding me. I've used it eons ago. But all
>> it does
>> is allow one to mount a device without needing sudo. Still not really
>> automounting.
>>
>> No one mentioned udevil. I just found it. Also not the same as
>> automounting,
>> but check out the interesting git home page:
>>
>> https://ignorantguru.github.io/udevil/
>>
> That guy also wrote spacefm. It's a file manager which allows you to
> either
> manually or automatically mount USB devices. It can be configured to
> use
> udevil, pmount, udisks1, or udisks2 to perform that function.
>
> Spacefm is currently unsupported by the developer.
>



checking github
https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm/commits/next

it seems spacefm is very much alive




> In the past I've used pcmanfm to perform this function, but on Jessie,
> it
> seems to require systemd stuff in order to handle mounting.
>
> -Rob
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