From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 13:37:12 +0300 From: Michael Shigorin To: community-en@lists.altlinux.org Message-ID: <20220104103712.GE23056@imap.altlinux.org> References: <911872d0d6626c36bc610992bcd6d2f7@disroot.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <911872d0d6626c36bc610992bcd6d2f7@disroot.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Subject: Re: [Comm-en] What do you use to mount USB devices in WindowMaker X-BeenThere: community-en@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "ALT Linux users \(in English only\)" List-Id: "ALT Linux users \(in English only\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:37:12 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 04:04:58AM +0000, David wrote: > So, my question to all WindowMaker users here is: do you use > anything special to handle USB devices, or do you do your own > configurations with /etc/fstab? Used to use subfs and autofs but now mostly just issuing "mount" for the last ten years or so -- a shortcut to run xterm is one of the first things to arrange on systems "inhabited" by me anyways; I've even disabled automounting on a MATE based system I use at work for OS development (it's not quite easy to programmatically predict that I'm planning to overwrite a DVDRW or USB Flash medium right upon its detection but stealing another half a minute of my life through "friendly" automounting attempt that I'll rollback ASAP anyways). > If there is a WindowMaker utility that makes it easier to > handle USB devices, please share your recommendations with me. There's wmvolman written by another WM user in ALT Linux Team some 15 years ago (it's also in Fedora and AUR); a quick check on my WM laptop shows it should be enough to install the package, run the applet and click the "-/ /-" button to mount/umount the media attached. Maybe we should include it into gnustep/wmaker starterkit. :-) PS: you might also want a file manager like pcmanfm/pcmanfm-qt (I prefer zsh ever since its discovery but there are use cases where a GUI file manager does better, like sorting photos). PPS: there's an article "on the harm of the friendly interfaces" written by Victor Wagner some 20 years ago or so (in Russian); some of us might find it thoughtful these days too: http://wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/articles/user-friendly.html; I found Yandex translation legible enough to relay it: https://translate.yandex.ru/translate?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wagner.pp.ru%2F~vitus%2Farticles%2Fuser-friendly.html&lang=ru-en (the funny bit being "friendly" term explanation and PATH/30 glitches; "thingy" would rather be "thingness", "being obsessed with things')). Suddenly realized that the article's completely "politically incorrect" -- and thoroughly enjoyed this particular case :-) -- š---- WBR, Michael Shigorin / http://altlinux.org šš------ http://opennet.ru / http://anna-news.info