gvfs usage

BCarey · 02-06-2015, 11:13 AM

Can someone point me to a how-to for gvfs. I would like to use it to mount my android phone but can't seem to find documentation.

Thanks,
Brian

STDOUBT · 02-06-2015, 07:50 PM

Could I bump your thread while asking "to what purpose would you mount your phone (or anything else, for that matter) using gvfs?"?

EDIT:
Sorry, maybe a better question would be "are you running the gvfsd daemon"?
and does this site offer no help?
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs

BCarey · 02-07-2015, 12:15 PM

I thought that that was a method for transferring files. Is that not true?

Brian

BCarey · 02-07-2015, 12:17 PM

It seems that connecting the phone to the computer works but not all the time. After repeated failures, and also trying to use, gmpt, switching to PTP mode I was able to connect to the phone. Then switching back to MTP suddenly it appeared and I was able to see the files. This may be a hardware issue not a software/linux issue.

Brian

bassmadrigal · 02-07-2015, 12:30 PM

It seems that gvfs is typically used by GUI apps to mount things. But, to mount phones, you really need libmtp. gvfs is just a frontend for it in some file managers when you type mtp:// (like thunar, but not kde). It might be worth grabbing the latest libmtp, because it is outdated on Slack 14.1.

Mark Pettit · 02-07-2015, 02:42 PM

If still no luck - try go-mtpfs. I tend to get best results with that.