From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 08:01:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 012463E1 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 08:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (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 B298EF7D for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 08:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-67-138.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.67.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC8E12763C; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:01:43 +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 s2U71IWs001971; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:01:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:01:18 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Beeblebrox Subject: Re: Automount in LXDE or Xfce Message-Id: <20140330090118.e0309af8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1396107985833-5898890.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <20140329130703.b51675d0.freebsd@edvax.de> <1396107985833-5898890.post@n5.nabble.com> 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: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 08:01:53 -0000 On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:46:25 -0700 (PDT), Beeblebrox wrote: > > Can anyone maybe share a _working_ configuration example? > > You have two choices for daemon: hald or devd. As you are aware, hald is > linux-based and devd is native FreeBSD, but still somewhat experimental. > Your choice as to which one (and why) will be preferred. I know that HAL is already deprecated in Linux world in favour of udev, upower et al. and doesn't fully work in FreeBSD. At the time it will work perfectly, nobody will be using it, like APM. :-) The desktop per se does _not_ matter, be it Xfce (which is missing icons and cannot shutdown the system), LXDE (which can shutdown the system) or even Gnome. If someone told me that it works in KDE (and KDE has German language support), I would use that. (Probably Gnome will add useful things like WLAN configuration and battery status display). Probably going with Gnome (gdm and maybe Gnome desktop) seems the way to go. I just hope to get all the moving parts (HAL configuration, PolicyKit and who knows what, maybe even OS-side permissions) running properly. I also know that devd can be used for automounting (with amd), but that probably won't integrate with a desktop environment mentioned, because those are Linux-centric and rely on HAL and DBUS, and don't care for what's working in FreeBSD: Furthermore, automounting is noting new. FreeBSD and KDE and Gnome, and even XFCE (capitals, means version 3!) could do that. In fact, on my old emergency workstation (P2, 300 MHz) FreeBSD 5.1 with XFCE does everything fine. So I think I'm not asking for something entirely impossible. :-) To reply to your last line: I will prefer whatever will work. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...