Good solution to volume management on a minimalist wm?

deadlylife · 2009-02-13 02:20:31

Hi, I'm currently using Awesome WM and need a way to manage volumes, Nautilus did it while I used GNOME, but not anymore.

dannytatom · 2009-02-13 02:23:03

prob not the solution you're looking for, but you could always open alsamixer in a terminal.

deadlylife · 2009-02-13 02:30:24

Sorry, I meant volumes as in flash drives, CDs, etc.

pyther · 2009-02-13 02:38:12

I use thunar, though you could use pcmanfs. However nautilus should also work, are you having a problem with nautilus?

Do you have hal running?

dannytatom · 2009-02-13 02:43:45

deadlylife wrote:

Sorry, I meant volumes as in flash drives, CDs, etc.

Hah, well don't I feel silly. I somehow missed the s in volumes.

deadlylife · 2009-02-13 02:49:26

pyther wrote:

I use thunar, though you could use pcmanfs. However nautilus should also work, are you having a problem with nautilus?
Do you have hal running?

I have hal, I use thunar for file management, does it do external media as well?
I love Nautilus but it renders a desktop and icons when I run it.

deadlylife · 2009-02-13 02:53:11

When I plug in my flash drive thunar-volman says
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result).

JazzplayerL9 · 2009-02-13 02:55:24

@deadlylife,

nautilus --no-desktop

That stops the desktop

Thunar does external media very well. Make sure thunar --daemon is started when you log into your WM.

aglarond · 2009-02-13 02:56:11

deadlylife wrote:

I love Nautilus but it renders a desktop and icons when I run it.

Run nautilus with the --no-desktop option. That'll keep it from taking over and it'll just run as a file manager.

-mS

Edit: Just a little too slow.

Last edited by aglarond (2009-02-13 02:57:15)

deadlylife · 2009-02-13 03:00:07

I have the thunar --daemon run when it starts, but I don't have permission to edit my flash drive's contents.

skottish · 2009-02-13 03:05:08

Answers to auto-mounting problems can be found here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

thayer · 2009-02-13 03:16:48

..and here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev (which is my preferred method...bad HAL bad)

moljac024 · 2009-02-13 11:01:38

Did you install the thunar-volman package ? If you don't have that, thunar won't mount things

fwojciec · 2009-02-13 11:59:04

deadlylife wrote:

When I plug in my flash drive thunar-volman says
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result).

This is a policy/console-kit problem. See this bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12221, you'll find a discussion of various workarounds in the comments there.

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