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barchiesi

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Registered: 2011-11-04

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[SOLVED] Thunar missing trash and volume management

Hello. I installed thunar, thunar-volman and gvfs on a fresh archlinux install. However I am not seeing trash nor mountable drives, what could I be missing? Thanks in advance

Last edited by barchiesi (2013-06-30 10:37:35)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar missing trash and volume management

Any errors in a term or the journal? polkit-gnome installed?

Last edited by Scimmia (2013-06-30 10:24:15)

barchiesi

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Registered: 2011-11-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar missing trash and volume management

Any errors in a term or the journal? polkit-gnome installed?

Starting thunar from the terminal shows nothing, not sure how to check the journal.
I have polkit-gnome installed and started as shown below.

[david@david-laptop public]$ ps aux | grep polkit
polkitd    403  0.0  0.0 506336 12988 ?        Ssl  10:42   0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
david     1167  0.0  0.0 233908  7100 ?        Sl   10:42   0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
david     6545  0.0  0.0  10692  1104 pts/0    S+   12:25   0:00 grep polkit

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar missing trash and volume management

Is gvfs running, too?

barchiesi

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Registered: 2011-11-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar missing trash and volume management

Well apparently I didn't have dbus started for my session. This can happen if you aren't using a login manager. Adding the below to my .xinitrc solves the problem:

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

The above is present in /etc/skel/.xinitrc