[arch-general] Is there a non file manager daemon for automounting like the ones provided by "pcmanfm -d"

Toyam Cox csupercomputergeek at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 06:31:02 UTC 2015


Another vote for udiskie. Python based, but works.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:29 AM, mustermann, max <bluemorpho at mykolab.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Im using udiskie with awesom WM. Im not sure if thats what youre searching
> for, but it shows what device is mounted & allows to unmount these. Im even
> more uncertain about what you meant by that: "Seems to be something to
> automount with particular uid/gid only.", but my USB Stick was mounted by
> his "name" (i forgot the name of that feature^^) => /media/USB\ Stick
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> regards
>
>
> Am 2015-01-07 06:51, schrieb Javier Vasquez:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I've been using "pcmanfm -d &" in my ~/.xinitrc, as suggested by [1].
>> However I would like something similar without the need of the file
>> manager.  Hopefully something that shows in the tray bar what's
>> mounted and allows umounting.
>>
>> I don't use a DE, just plain fluxbox, and having to use whether
>> pcmanfm or thunar or any other file manager with daemon capability is
>> something I would like to prevent.
>>
>> I read about ldm, suggested by [2], but it doesn't seem to offer what
>> I'm looking for.  Seems to be something to automount with particular
>> uid/gid only.  though I might be wrong.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>


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- Toyam


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