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Author: Rob Owens
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To: shraptor
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] automounting in a window manager
----- Original Message -----
> From: "shraptor" <shraptor@???>
> 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
>


Awesome! Thanks for the update. Last I had read, ignorantguru was on
haitus (announced April 28, 2014). But it looks like as of this February,
he's back.

https://igurublog.wordpress.com/