2007-06-22T01:48:37ZFluxBBhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34388From the above link, what i can make out is that hal does a lot of things other (dont ask me what) than just mounting cd's. Given that, can autofs, etc., replace hal.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=76952007-06-22T01:48:37Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=260582#p260582HAL is for DEs. For light WMs use autofs or other autmount tools]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=45802007-06-21T14:16:08Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=260443#p260443http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HalFAQ]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=66672007-06-21T03:26:47Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=260345#p260345I had put hal in rc.conf and what it does is mounts cd's when they are inserted. I could not find any other use of hal visible to me thoug i'm partly blind as i dont have technical vision Even after it has mounted cd's, I still need to enter cd using a file manager like rox or thunar before programs can use files from cd, like sonata to play music. Then with hal disabled, I can still enter cd from rox and get it mounted automatically and also save some memory used by hal. Am I wrong, are there other uses of hal that i am unaware of. Wiki did not make much sense to me.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=76952007-06-21T03:12:58Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=260343#p260343