[arch-general] USB Access of Nikon D3500 DSLR

[ProgAndy]

Am 07.06.21 um 14:35 schrieb mpan via arch-general:
>> Thank you friends for your trying to help. But none of the suggestions
>> worked. In fact I had already tried those before writing to the mailing
>> list. Finally one of my friends (not in mailing list) suggested me to
>> install 'shotwell' (
>> https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/shotwell/), and it solved
>> the problem. After installing 'shotwell', when I made the camera 'on'
>> after
>> connecting to my PC's USB the camera got mounted and the icon came up on
>> the Desktop. I reported it here as an information service. Thank you all.
>   Shotwell is a pictures browser, unrelated to handling cameras by the
> file manager or desktop environment. It seems to be a coincidence caused
> by installation of one of the dependencies of the shotwell package.
> Therefore the issue is not solved.
> 
>   Of all its dependencies the only ones I see, that do relate to photos
> access and wouldn’t be installed already on Arch Linux as the base
> dependencies, is libgphoto2 and whatever it needs. Which would be
> installed as a dependency of gvfs-gphoto2 suggested above.

It might simply be an incidental restart between the tests.

libgphoto2 installs udev rules that might require a system restart or a
reload of the udev rules.

gvfs-gphoto2 installs a systemd user service and a gvfs monitor, which
might require a restart of the user session.