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hobarrera

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2011-04-12

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gvfs-mtp mount path

I used jtmpfs for ages, but I much prefer integrating this sort of mounting into Thunar (like mounting USB drives).

Regrettably when Thunar (or rather, gvfs) mounts an mtp devices, it doesn't seem to do a real mount. There's no way to `cd` into that location, nor any real mount path. I can't open files with other applications (and lots fail even via Thunar) because it passes a fictitious URL (mtp://...) instead of a Unix file path (and most applications don't understand what to do with this).

Is there a way around this' can one configure where gvfs mounts this, or is this it's only mode of operation? I'd much rather see things mounted somewhere (eg: /media/...), and be able to right click> open terminal here.

Also, how have users of thunar + gvfs-mtp worked around this? Do you drag-drop files elsewhere to interact with them, or merely limit yourselves to xfce applications that support this url scheme?

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