Xwindow advise needed

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 04:41:47AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:25:53 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Polytropon wrote:
> > >
> > > For a long time, Xfce has been considered the "less fatty
> > > desktop" in comparison to the "big players" Gnome and KDE.
> > > But with the growing incompatibilities btweeen FreeBSD and
> > > Linux (the system Xfce is primarily being developed on and
> > > for), you might experience missing functionality.
> > 
> > I use xfce.  The only thing that does not work on FreeBSD, as far as I 
> > know, is automounting.  There are other ways to do that.  I just 
> > manually mount stuff.  Otherwise, xfce has the standard desktop features 
> > without being resource-hungry or having a huge list of dependencies.
> 
> The problem is not the automounter itself. It's its
> integration with the GUI elements, in two ways:
> 
> 1st, when the automounter mounts a device which has
> been appearing, either by a label or by a device name,
> this new mountpoint must be "picked up" by the GUI
> and be shown on the desktop.

It was my impression that the new automount/autofs in 10.1 does *not* do that.
AFAICT it tries to mount a filesystem when a directory is accessed.
Which is nice for say NFS or SMBFS, but doesn't cater to the common use of
using a memstick.

So I've been using a slightly modified(*) version of sysutils/automount, which
reacts to devd events. This generally works fine for memsticks and USB-HDs.
Unmounting has to be done by hand, of course.

(*) my modifications were to add support for libnotify and/or wall(1).


Roland
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