[SOLVED] Issues with Thunar and auto-mounting NTFS 1TB USB drive on Slackware.
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Issues with Thunar and auto-mounting NTFS 1TB USB drive on Slackware.
[SOLVED]
Distro: Slackware 14
Kernel Version: 4.14.15
Default Desktop: KDE
Current Desktop: herbstluftwm
Login Manager: NA / Xinitrc
*EDIT*
List of installed packages: https://pastebin.com/fiFA3uMD
I'm having issues getting Thunar to auto-mount my USB NTFS hard drive. My account is a member of the plugdev group. Dolphin auto-mounts them just fine, even when running in herbstluftwm. If I un-mount the drive, close Dolphin, open Thunar and plug the hard drive in, the drive will not show up in Thunar. The drive has to be mounted in Dolphin first if I want to be able to access it by using Thunar. Volume Management is enabled, "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged" and "Mount removable media when inserted" are enabled as well. My goal is to remove KDE and all kde packages so I can have a more lean system with some freed up space which is why I'm switching to Thunar.
Last edited by oatsnhoney; 02-09-2018 at 02:19 AM.
Current Desktop: herbstluftwm:
is that like a bare bones WM?
Code:
# Start DBUS session bus:
if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
fi
in autostart might help ...
that is what I use in WMaker, Fluxbox, openbox....
Current Desktop: herbstluftwm:
is that like a bare bones WM?
Code:
# Start DBUS session bus:
if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
fi
in autostart might help ...
that is what I use in WMaker, Fluxbox, openbox....
Unfortunately this did not work.
EDIT:herbstluftwm is a tiling window manager.
See here; https://herbstluftwm.org/
Quote:
Originally Posted by allend
I am not familiar with herbstluftwm, but I am reminded of this thread
I will try compiling from source.
EDIT: Issues now solved. Thanks BW-userx your solution resolved the issue.
I just to restart xorg and then it worked.
Thank you
Last edited by oatsnhoney; 02-08-2018 at 06:42 PM.
Unfortunately this did not work.
EDIT:herbstluftwm is a tiling window manager.
See here; https://herbstluftwm.org/
I will try compiling from source.
EDIT: Issues now solved. Thanks BW-userx your solution resolved the issue.
I just to restart xorg and then it worked.
Thank you
oops forgot to mention that, restart .. glad its working though. ..
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glad its working though. .. 
