From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 20:31:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F00D537 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F16CC2713 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-111-1.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.111.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3DFA3CBB2; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:31:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s7GKV7cg001875; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:31:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:31:07 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Roland Smith Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-Id: <20140816223107.a5d28296.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140816201314.GA73102@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <20140814072430.5e39c3bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53ED2189.6020408@hiwaay.net> <53EE14FA.8060601@hiwaay.net> <20140815192413.78634baa.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net> <20140815194438.2a468e5f.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net> <87iolsift1.fsf@elk.localnet> <20140816183110.5878829a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140816201314.GA73102@slackbox.erewhon.home> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:31:17 -0000 On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:13:14 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 01:03:07PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Polytropon wrote: > > > > > Why did I abandon Xfce? Because it's not "portable enough" > > > anymore. It's a "mostly Linux" desktop environment where the > > > attempt of running it on FreeBSD leads to despair - it's not > > > trivial to set up anymore, and functionality is lacking. > > > > I don't understand this. xfce works quite well for me. There is no > > automounter, and a few years back, I wrote one. But doing that well is > > non-trivial, so I just manually mount things now. > > sysutils/automount works reasonably well. Yes, I think this is what I ended up using. > Although I patched it to use notify-send so I can see that a filesystem has > been mounted. I don't know which part of Gnome is responsible, but an icon is created when a new file system has been mounted. This also works. Only the unmounting part didn't work, that's why that system's umount program is actually a script calling the real umount binary with the -f option (or it would _not_ unmount because the resource is claimed as being busy), and in case of optical media, use camcontrol to eject the drive. > Another change that I've made to it is to use the `sync` option on > FAT filesystems. It would be nice to have that set in /etc/fstab, but that again disturbs HAL... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...