Re: Solved! USB sticks not recognized

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, houghi wrote:-

David Bolt wrote:
<snip test>
It would be nice if, instead of the way it presently works in KDE (and
possibly Gnome), it was more like XFce4. I like the way the icon appears
and disappears from the desktop when the device is inserted and removed.

The apearing or disapearing from an icon when something is mounted or
not is indead something for the windowmanager.
Automounting is not.

No, it shouldn't be something the window manager does. I'm not sure, but
I don't actually think it is the window manager that's doing the actual
auto-mounting. I think it's something that's started up by the Gnome,
KDE and Xfce4 desktop initialization that performs the auto-mount.
What's more, it appears that it's only started up when the local desktop
session is started, not a remote one.

The reason I say it's only for a local desktop session is because that's
how it appears to be after testing. The background to this is that I
normally use VNC to use other systems on my network because it's much
easier to have one monitor, keyboard and mouse, and work across the
network, rather than have one monitor, keyboard and mouse for each
system.

As the iMac has the system "inside" the monitor that's the only other
system with a dedicated monitor, with the exception of my laptop. So,
while writing up the test results on this system, I was using the iMac
to perform the test. No problems there, I just logged in using the
various desktops and auto mounting worked with the KDE desktop, and the
Xfce4 desktop showed the icon.

Now the interesting thing. I started up the VNC server and opened up the
connection while still logged in to the desktop. At that point, I was
able to auto-mount the USB key. However, as soon as I logged out from
the desktop and left the VNC session open, I was unable to auto-mount
again.


Regards,
David Bolt

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