Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

[Kevin Kinsey]

Chess Griffin wrote:
> On 3/16/07, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
>>> I have installed Hal, Dbus, and polkit and have those 3 things enabled
>>> in my /etc/rc.conf.  I also installed thunar and the thunar-volman plugin.
>>> However, when I go to the "Advanced" tab in the File Manager settings
>>> manager in order to activate the auto-mounting, it states "Build 
>>>thunar-vfs with HAL support to use the volume management support in Thunar."  
>>> When I built Thunar I did enable Hal support, and I can't find anything in
>>> ports or packages about thunar-vfs.
>>
>> Hmm, which did you install first, HAL or Thunar?

> *doh!*
> 
> I had installed Thunar first and then HAL... :)  I just uninstalled
> Thunar and rebuilt it with HAL on the system. Auto-mounting works
> fine, now.  Problem solved.  Sheesh, I feel silly.
> 
> Thank you, Kevin!

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KDK
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