Thunar doesn't show CD's or DVD's anymore

kikinovak · 09-27-2012, 01:19 AM

Hi,

I'm running Slackware 13.37 with Robby Workman's Xfce 4.8.3. Thunar has suddenly stopped showing data CD's or DVD's in the side pane when I insert them. I can still mount them manually though. USB disks still appear correctly though.

On this one machine, I did a manual "eject" and "eject -t" as root in a graphical Terminal yesterday. I wonder if this created some weird interference somewhere.

Not the slightest idea what could have gone wrong here.

suttiwit · 09-27-2012, 10:14 AM

have you tried a different alternatives to thunar?

catkin · 09-27-2012, 05:45 PM

Have you tried with disabling the existing personal Thunar configuration? The easiest way to do that is to rename ~/.config/Thunar or, to be more sure, to create a new user and see if the problem "goes away" for that user.

kikinovak · 09-28-2012, 12:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin

Have you tried with disabling the existing personal Thunar configuration? The easiest way to do that is to rename ~/.config/Thunar or, to be more sure, to create a new user and see if the problem "goes away" for that user.

Yeah, I tried nearly everything. Removing ~/.config, reinstalling my custom packages, to no avail. In the end, I just solved the problem by "reinstalling" the whole thing (e. g. restoring the Ghost4Linux image from the local FTP server). It remains a mystery.

Eternal_Newbie · 09-28-2012, 04:36 AM

XFCE also keeps settings under ~/.cache/ for some reason. I suspect it was something in there

el chapulín · 09-28-2012, 06:35 AM

In the thunar menu there is an option to enable volume management - it might not be on by default?

I had lots of problems with Xfce newer than 4.6, in Debian, with regards to volume management, shutdown, reboot, etc, due to the removal of HAL. Usually starting Xfce from a display manager is the quickest fix.