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progrock

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Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 33

FVWM Automounting

Hi all,
I started using FVWM a couple of days ago (I spent all yesterday getting my window decor together) after using gnome for the past several years, but I still have a question for you gurus out there.  What do you use to automount your DVDs, flashdrives, external hdds, etc?  Or do you?  I don't want to go back to mounting all my volumes manually, but I guess I can - I've gotten spoiled by Gnome's automagic for things like this.

Anyway, thanks in advance.

progrock

heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: FVWM Automounting

I use thunar-volman (with thunar obviously).

I think ivman is pretty popular. I tried using it, but didnt have the time to search for correct configs/etc

progrock

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Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 33

Re: FVWM Automounting

IIRC, thunar goes with xfce?  Is it pretty lightweight?  I've been so impressed with how slim I've been able to keep this system compared the Fedora 9 or Hardy.

I guess I'll check otherwise on ivman.

Any more suggestions?

edit:
Is there anything special I need to do to get thunar setup right?

Last edited by progrock (2008-07-19 04:51:21)

Sjoden

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From: WA

Registered: 2007-08-16

Posts: 380

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Re: FVWM Automounting

Thunar is lightweight. I use pcmanfm. It is just as light, to me anyways, and doesn't have any xfce/gnome/kde depends. They pcmanfm and thunar-volman will both automount.

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: FVWM Automounting

Thunar works great, this is what I use.  This thread is also interesting: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46944.

progrock

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Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 33

Re: FVWM Automounting

+1 for pcmanfm!  It's excellent!  What does it need to automount?  If it doesn't need hal or dbus or whatever, I'd like a reason to get rid of more boot-up clutter.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: FVWM Automounting

I'd use Thunar or udev. ivman seems to be slow, buggy crap, and is currently unmaintained.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: FVWM Automounting

I would also suggest you go with thunar. It's really light. You could also try pcmanfm. See which you like more.

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anrxc

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 834

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Re: FVWM Automounting

Try autofs, when you cd to a mount point device gets mounted. You can have shortcuts with FvwmButtons, desktop icons, use any file manager, or whatever. This could get you started http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AutoFS_HowTo

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daf666

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 470

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Re: FVWM Automounting

The udev method in the wiki works great: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … SB_devices