On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 12/15/14 09:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:37:58 -0700, Joseph wrote: >> >> I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk >>> it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? >>> >> >> Which desktop are you using? Does it have an auto-mounter installed by >> default? >> >> >> -- >> Neil Bothwick >> >> Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live >> > > I'm using XFCE4 and everytime I insert a USB with FAT or ext2/3/4 the icon > pops up on a desktop but I mount them manually. > -- > Joseph > > I remember asking on this list for instructions on how to auto-mount removable drives some time ago as well. Here's a copy of the rely I got. Hope this helps. -------------------------------------------------------------- From: Samuli Suominen Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org xfce-base/thunar needs to have USE="udev" enabled and xfce-extra/thunar-volman must be installed i don't see thunar-volman in your list there futhermore authorization from polkit/consolekit must be working, so you must see 'active = TRUE' line when you run `ck-list-sessions` in your Xfce's Terminal as a normal user, see this thread (first post of it): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html and like said, xfce4-mount-plugin is irrelevant, and `mount` command shouldn't be used at all for udisks maintained removable devices, instead `udisksctl mount` should be used as a normal user if you really want to mount from commandline