Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

Chess Griffin chessg at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 23:02:01 UTC 2007


On 3/16/07, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
> > I have installed Hal, Dbus, and polkit and have those 3 things enabled
> > in my
> > /etc/rc.conf.  I also installed thunar and the thunar-volman plugin.
> > However, when I go to the "Advanced" tab in the File Manager settings
> > manager in order to activate the auto-mounting, it states "Build thunar-vfs
> > with HAL support to use the volume management support in Thunar."  When I
> > built Thunar I did enable Hal support, and I can't find anything in
> > ports or packages about thunar-vfs.
>
> Hmm, which did you install first, HAL or Thunar?
>
> KDK

*doh!*

I had installed Thunar first and then HAL... :)  I just uninstalled
Thunar and rebuilt it with HAL on the system. Auto-mounting works
fine, now.  Problem solved.  Sheesh, I feel silly.

Thank you, Kevin!

Chess


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