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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager
You can roll your own automount with one day's work using inotify-wait,
dmesg, sudo, lsblk, and the mount command. Works without X or window
manager. Heck, I'll do it myself if more than 20 people want it.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21


On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:06:23 -0700
James Powell <james4591@???> wrote:

> I seriously doubt Xfce will go fully into systemd since they forked
> ConsoleKit2 and have been updating it to perform all the work of
> logind.
>
> I just wish Xfce would write their own automount utility to replace
> udisks. ________________________________
> From: Teodoro Santoni<mailto:asbrasbra@gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎7/‎26/‎2015 12:17 PM
> To: Steve Litt<mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com>
> Cc: dng@???<mailto:dng@lists.dyne.org>
> Subject: Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager
>
> Good evening,
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:49:54PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > I thought we'd decided on Xfce, and I'd thought that we managed to
> > de-xxxxxxx-ize Xfce. Everyone (except me) likes Xfce, why not use
> > it? It's trivial to use, even for somebody who's never seen it
> > before. It's the Nano of the Window Manger/Desktop Environment
> > world. You might not like it, but you can use it long enough to
> > switch over to something else. It's somewhat reasonable about the
> > resources it uses.
>
> Thoughtful words, are these.
> I don't mind Xfce, and I used it long enough to configure cwm and
> lemonbar. It's the buildingblockest of all the DEs in X11 world imho.
>
> --
> Teodoro Santoni
>
> Something is wrong. I don't wanna compile 20 KB of Go code to list
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