Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:31:07 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408161258180.13324@wonkity.com> <20140816201314.GA73102@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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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, ...
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