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Why does Thunar not auto Mount USB devices?
$ thunar thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Could not detect the volume corresponding to the device. thunar-volman: Could not detect the volume corresponding to the device. (Both messages are printed twice when inserting a single USB drive.)
What kind of USB device is Thunar Volman?
I did get these errors though: thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unknown block device type. thunar-volman: Unknown block device type. I did quite a bit of googling on these issues, to no avail.
Do you have to install GVfs for Thunar to work?
There are a bunch of random tips in this thread, but at least some of them seem at odds with the wiki: gvfs is mentioned, although the wiki only mentions it as a requirement for browsing remote locations. Turns out you have to install gvfs and polkit-gnome to make this work.
Can a NTFS partition be mounted to a thumb drive?
It’s an NTFS partition on an external HDD and the Arch core iso on a usb thumb drive. Both can be mounted just fine with pmount. The wiki suggests devmon from the AUR. I’m having very good results with udiskie which is in community. Sounds good, since my volumes show up on the desktop when mounted.
What happens when I manually mount a USB device?
When I manually mount them with pmount, the volumes show up and I can unmount them after entering my password. Then, they disappear. My user account is in the storage group.
Why is Thunar root not working with Xfce?
It happens because xfconf, xfsettingsd and tumbler are not registered to root’s dbus session. They also won’t work with pkexec, sudo or gksudo. Like I said, Nemo and Nautilus also can’t work with dbus in this setting.
Is it possible to create a new folder in Thunar?
All went well until I noticed that in Thunar it was not possible to create new folder (or file) – the option was greyed out – on the external drive (while on the ntfs partition all was well):
Do you need Thunar Volman to Mount volumes?
Bellum: Somebody on IRC told me that thunar-volman is not actually needed to mount the volumes. It is used to have automatic actions following mounting and such. Anyway, I did try having thunar-volman and it didn’t change a thing. I did get these errors though: