jeff did not bail out. he and the team are actively working on bodhi. careful what you say.

as stated in another thread. NO - bodhi is as active as error with Jeff and the team.

Yeah that's an odd thing to say, I completely missed that weird comment. The new release was only a few weeks ago. The website is fine, he's on this forum, he's on discord and responds fairly often, he responds on reddit too. The only thing is no more dedicated forums, I installed bodhi for the first time the day before the dedicated bodhi forums disappeared so I don't miss them as much as others, other than in google searches, but most are on internet archive.

I've been a Bodhi user for years. As far as I know the developer is still developing Bodhi. He just erased the forums because of some European legislation, that he felt threatened him. That was too bad because there was a lot of useful info in there. Now the website forum link points here. Alot of the Bodhi staff are here. I just talked to a bunch of them the other day.

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plus 10 RANDY!

then they that are still on the team should know how to deal with this major quirk that the OP is experiencing. and fix it toot sweet. fair winds and clean installs to the bodhi team... cheers!

maybe i should add y 1 cent into the slackware and manjaro area though i never used them. many people not familiar add their 2 cents here without knowing the bodhi experience. sometimes their info is apropros and sometimes i have seen they are way of base.all i am saying after a 16 plus hr day. man be nice.

that was nice, if one develops the distro then who better should know the ins and outs of it? I've tried it briefly, and almost tried it again yesterday, but it is based on Ubuntututututututututututututututu. so I canceled that idea.

I want to thank all of U for ur input and ideas, especially BW-userx, however I have decided after doing 4 installs of Bodhi, to bail on it. Seems too much time and energy to spend when all I want is a simple "out of the box" working Distro as a back-up system to take on the fly for basic internet functions and email. I am looking at MX-Linux, small, looks user friendly and minimal resource grabber AND it comes with a User Manual, wat a great idea !
Thanks again for giving me ur time, it was certainly appreciated.
Lighthorse

Hello.

I've found the final solution for "Not authorized to perform operation" while "ejecting" an USB stick in the PCManFM.


1) Open "Terminology", get root permissions, and go to the /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d directory:

2) Create polkit rule file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-pcmanfm-eject.pkla:
(where last string "^D" means [Ctrl]+[D] keys pressing)

3) That's all.

P.S. I think there is a sense to put this polkit rule into distribution as /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.bodhilinux.desktop.pkla

i realize that this is an older thread that has not been looked at in awhile and the original poster may or may not have discovered
an answer possibly looking elsewhere. However, I feel there may be a way to keep from having to umount a USB drive by having
to use sudo to do so. I would suggest looking into editing the /etc/fstab file. There is an option that one could use in a
fstab listing called 'users' that allows users to mount and umount drives without having to be root. CD-ROMS are commonly
set up in this manner so that root access is not necessary to place and remove discs into the drive.
I would suggest looking at , and for some info. Could also do a web search 'USB and fstab' as well.
(I promise, all that my very next thing to learn is how to properly insert code). Hope this helps.