Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

[Chess Griffin]

On 3/16/07, Chris Shenton <chris at shenton.org> wrote:
>
> When you try to open a Thunar window to look at some directory, does
> it work?  It did for me on one box, once, but since thing the window
> comes up with a gray pane and two white panels then hangs, with "top"
> saying it's in state "kserel".  I haven't been able to resolve this on
> the ports or thunar lists. :-(
>
> The one time I saw it work, it was able to mount USB drives
> automatically (in my case, a digital audio recorder). I didn't have to
> do anything special but I was running hald and friends.
>


Chris, thanks for your reply.  Yes, Thunar works just fine browsing the
filesystem.  It's just that nothing automounts like it's supposed to, and
that includes both USB sticks and CDs.

Should I post this in freebsd-ports as well?  I don't want to double-post if
the port maintainers also monitor this list as well.  I may post in the
thunar or xfce mailing lists, but I think this is a FreeBSD issue since the
Thunar automounting works in various Linux distributions.

I would really like to get this to work, but scouring google hits and
mailing lists has turned up empty.  :(