Now that I am using XMonad I find that my USB devices no longer automount when I plug them into my computer. How do I get them to automount again just like they did when I was using gnome?
4 Answers
I'd recommend one of the udisks-based solutions. uam seems to do the job without too much configuration. udisks-glue is also decent for scripting.
- uam:
This is just simple tool for mounting pendrives and alikes when inserted -- something like ivman or functionality integrated in KDE/GNOME.
udiskie is a simple daemon that uses udisks to automatically mount removable storage devices.
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Your option is a good one but I marked mine as the answer because it was simpler. (It was a one liner) Yours is probably better memory wise though, probably a little less top heavy. I still gave you an upvote. May 4, 2011 at 23:07
The way that I have solved that problem is to use nautilus running the the background to continue to manage that for me. You can do that like so:
nautilus --no-desktop -n &
If you happen to start XMonad using a custom .xsession file then that would be the perfect place to put that line. Make sure you put it before the 'exec xmonad' command.
On Arch Linux ldm works quite well with plain XMonad.
Disks will automatically mount to /media
. Disks may be unmounted with sudo pumount
or sudo umount
.
References:
I think you are better off with udisks. It comes installed by default (at least on Ubuntu) and handles the standard mounting and unmounting like a charm. You can read all about it here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions
Btw as the documentation says, udisks is not gnome specific.