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For the first time in many months, this morning I had the opportunity to use a Floppy disk and an external USB drive.
Neither were recognized by Xfce 4.8. I was able to get to the USB drive by opening a terminal and, as root, mounting
it "by hand," but was never able to get it to see the floppy.
Just FYI.
Can you mount the USB drive with your normal user from a terminal using udisks?
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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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When using Xfce 4.6.1 or 2 there were always 3 to 4, sometimes more, Thunar related icons on the desktop. There was
one for the "file system," one for my "Home" directory, one for the floppy drive regardless if whether or not there was a floppy in the drive, and others if there was a disk in one of the CD/DVD drives or a external USB drive was plugged in.
With 4.8 there are only two icons, one for the "file system" and one for "home." The floppy drive, as far as Xfce is concerned, doesn't exist. It doesn't matter what I plug-in to a USB port or insert into a CD/DVD drive, they are not recognized.
I don't have an xinitrc in my $HOME, and I start xfce from runlevel 3 with startx.
ConsoleKit session info looks fine. Re xinitrc, I wasn't clear on what I meant - it's actually $HOME/.xinitrc, which is copied into place by xwmconfig
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Originally Posted by cwizardone
When using Xfce 4.6.1 or 2 there were always 3 to 4, sometimes more, Thunar related icons on the desktop. There was
one for the "file system," one for my "Home" directory, one for the floppy drive regardless if whether or not there was a floppy in the drive, and others if there was a disk in one of the CD/DVD drives or a external USB drive was plugged in.
With 4.8 there are only two icons, one for the "file system" and one for "home." The floppy drive, as far as Xfce is concerned, doesn't exist. It doesn't matter what I plug-in to a USB port or insert into a CD/DVD drive, they are not recognized.
I don't have any way of testing the floppy stuff - I don't have one :/
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by rworkman
....I don't have any way of testing the floppy stuff - I don't have one :/
Just for chuckles I re-installed Xfce 4.6.2 (from current) and voilą, the floppy drive icon re-appeared.
I think I'll stay with 4.6.2 for a while (yeah, I know, I've said that before )
Have you chosen a desktop environment in xwmconfig?
Also please note that it's .xinitrc not xinitrc
I realized I only ever ran xwmconfig as root and not using my normal account. I never ran it as my normal user because I wanted the system-wide setting to be xfce. I reran xwmconfig using my normal account, and now I have the .xinitrc file in my $HOME directory. However, it does not solve the USB mounting issue, so I've added back the polkit-1 rule and the storage group as the Arch Linux team suggested.
I realized I only ever ran xwmconfig as root and not using my normal account. I never ran it as my normal user because I wanted the system-wide setting to be xfce. I reran xwmconfig using my normal account, and now I have the .xinitrc file in my $HOME directory. However, it does not solve the USB mounting issue, so I've added back the polkit-1 rule and the storage group as the Arch Linux team suggested.
Are you using PAM?
Arch is using a hack to bypass a bug in PAM.
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The changes doesn't need any restart or reload. Please note that this is a temporary solution as Ionut and other core dev prefer to fix the pam + ck issues
USB/CD/DVD mounting works flawlessly here (init 4 from KDM). Even when Thunar is not opened, if I insert a flash drive, Thunar will auto open to the mounted drive. I suspect you double checked your group permissions, and do not have conflicting entries in fstab.
What happens if you launch xfce from KDM? I wonder if this is another issue with their xinitrc?
My normal user account is a member of the following groups:
root, wheel, floppy, audio, video, cdrom, messagebus, users, console, vboxusers, and storage (added storage per Arch Linux suggestion)
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