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Author: T.J. Duchene
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To: Steve Litt
CC: dng@lists.dyne.org
New-Topics: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager
Subject: Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager
That's a very gracious offer, Steve, and I'm sure it will be greatly
appreciated. =)

If I might say so, I HATE automount. Click to mount is fine, but
automounting peripheral drives like jump drives, CDs and whatnot is an
inexcusable security risk, in my opinion, even under a UNIX.

Mounting should be restricted to only the most experienced users, never
embedded in the software so every user can across the board. The default
setup on too many Linux machines reminds me of Windows.

T.J.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@???>
wrote:

> 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
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> Steve Litt
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>
> 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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