On 01/10/12 at 01:46pm, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > Christian Dysthe <cdys...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > On 01/10/12 at 06:36pm, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > >> Christian Dysthe <cdys...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> > > >> > I've been running a relatively minimal desktop for years (Pekwm/hint2). > > >> > I haven't had many devices to connect to my computer so I have mounted > > >> > as needed. Over the last couple of years I've gathered devices I like > > >> > to > > >> > connect to my computer like cameras, phones and a USB drive so I > > >> > thought > > >> > it might be time to look into getting automount working. What's the > > >> > easiest way to do this without running Gnome (or KDE)? > > >> > > > >> > I'm running Sid > > >> > > >> I have installed usbmount that automatically mount and unmount USB mass > > >> storage devices. > > > > > > Will USB mount work with a phone and MicroSD cards in the card reader on > > > the laptop? I've tested in Gnome and both mounts there. > > > > I don't have any of them so I don't know. However, you can try. > > I believe either thunar or pcmanfm (graphical file managers) come with all > that automount stuff preconfigured. > so you could just aptitude install pcmanfm, or something, if you want a > graphical file manager to handle that. > I'm not sure what other graphical bloat they're likely to bring with them. > Thunar, iirc, is part of the XFCE desktop, but I don't think you need to > install xfce to use it. > To my knowledge, they both use gtk.
Thanks. I found that I can start Thunar as a daemon which gives me automount. I'm using MC for file management, but I guess I could use Thunar since it'll be running at all times anyway doing automount for me. > > tony > -- > http://www.tonybaldwin.me > all tony, all the time > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20120110184614.ga12...@deathstar.hsd1.ct.comcast.net > -- //Christian Dysthe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120110193204.GC14201@mint
