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Jeffhunt90

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Registered: 2012-11-20

Posts: 14

i3 starts Nautilus without its protocols

I start i3 from directly from ~/.bashrc but when I do that Nautilus does not auto mount usb devices and does not know about protocols such as webdav and ssh. But if I invoke i3 through gnome-desktop-manager then Nautilus knows about these things.
Can anyone tell me what to do get Nautilus fully functional without using GDM?

EDIT: Sorry, I use ~/.xinitrc to start i3

Last edited by Jeffhunt90 (2014-07-19 22:12:06)

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: i3 starts Nautilus without its protocols

Those aren't Nautilus "protocols." Display managers like GDM usually start more than just the window manager; you need to account for all those things (probably ssh-agent, gpg-agent, whatever GNOME uses for automounting drives) and configure them to start by other means. There are probably some authentication/PAM issues involved. I haven't used GDM in years so I don't know all the details about what it does, but if you check the wiki and search the web you should find plenty of info on getting drives to automount and SSH to work without a display manager/desktop environment.

By the way, you should be starting your window manager via ~/.xinitrc, not ~/.bashrc.

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