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Hi there,
I configured gnome-volume-manager to automatically mount drives (esp. usbsticks and so on) and it is working quite smoothly.
But one side effect is bothering me a little:
As suggested in a gnome-volume-manager HowTo, the volume manager is loaded on startx in the following form
<.xinitrc>
exec startxfce4 & exec gnome-volume-manager
</.xinitrc>
as soon as I try to quit my Xfce session the session hangs and will not terminate properly, i.e. logfoff-screen appears but session is not ended.
I waited for quite a while (about an hour :shock: )...
As I didn't change too much over the last few days, I quickly found out that the gnome-volume-manager is the culprit. As soon as the 'exec gnome-volume-manager' part is removed, Xfce will shut down normally.
Has anyone else encountered this side effect? Is there a solution?
Greez and Thx
Bernhard
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I was experiencing with hal and automonting. Finally I found ivman:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=65955
You can configure it to do everything gnome-volume-manager does, and much more.
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aah!
So the Problem is hal and not the gnome-volume-manager...
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I wouldn't start gnome-volume-manager that way, I would configure xfce4 to add gnome-volume-manager to the session when it starts up. Putting it in your .xinitrc makes xfce4 unaware of gnome-volume-manager.
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I wouldn't start gnome-volume-manager that way, I would configure xfce4 to add gnome-volume-manager to the session when it starts up. Putting it in your .xinitrc makes xfce4 unaware of gnome-volume-manager.
Sounds logical.
It was the way described in the HOwTo, though. That's why I started the volume-manager like this. I would have preferred a more general approach, starting the gnome-volume-manager someplace more general (and not separately for each user)
I guess the correct place would be somewhere in ~/.config/xfce4??
I would have thought maybe the xinitrc that resides there... (Maybe along with xftaskbar4...)
Or is there a more suitable file??
Greez
bernhard
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So the Problem is hal and not the gnome-volume-manager...
No, the problem is not hal: Both gnome-volume-manager and ivman manage automonting communicating with hal. Hal has nothing to do with your issue.
I just recomend you to use ivman instead of gnome-volume-manager for these main reasons:
- ivman runs daemonized. Your devices will allways automount. You don't need to be in a desktop environment.
- ivman is capable of anything, gnome-volume-manager just does what it is programmed for.
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- ivman runs daemonized. Your devices will allways automount. You don't need to be in a desktop environment.
That sounds quite good! But there's no pacman-package yet, is there?
Greez
Bernhard
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in the post i linked in the first post you can find the PKGBUILD and the rc.d file
just create a folder, create the the two files (copy pasting) and d then run "makepkg -ci" in the console in the same folder where you have put the two files.
On the other hnd, I think there won't pass many since the package appears in the repos, as I've already done the PKGBUILD.
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I suppose I'll switch whenever ivman is available for pacman.
After working in front of a computer all day, I just cannot be bothered to compile (and later an maintain) packages for myself...
Meanwhile I worked around the problem by putting a small shell script into my Autostart folder...
Thx!
Bernhard
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