Several questions, regarding Etch and XFCE

[netstrider]

OK so I took it upon myself to have a more customized system, so I downloaded the 158MB netinstaller iso and installed that. I then installed x-window-system-core and xfce4.

So here lies my questions and complications:

1.) Each time I boot up, it takes me to the login in the console and then I have to physically type "startx" to get into XFCE, automation would be nice . Other thing is, when I try shutting down from within XFCE I have to log out and then switch to root and use "poweroff", the "Shut Down" button is greyed-out in XFCE itself.

2.) My USB drive does not mount automatically, I have to mount it myself with:

mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /media/STICK/

, not such a nice thing to do everytime either - automation would once again be nice

3.) My CD and DVD drives don't mount at all...How can I mount them, and is there a way to have them automatically mounted?

[netstrider]

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4.) XFCE currently has no screenshot app...I want it's default one and it would be nice if the "Prnt Scrn" key could be assigned to it. Previously I had installed it as a "taskbar" applet/plugin and had to physically click on it to work.

Thanks for any help... I will post the fstab if required... ( couldn't fit it into either of these posts - limited to 1000 characters)

[IsaacKuo]

I'm not familiar with XFCE, so I don't know how to get all of that stuff to work. I'm guessing that in order for "shutdown" to work, you need to use either "gdm" or "kdm". You don't want "kdm" unless you intend to run KDE or KDE applications...I'm guessing not. "gdm" is a better fit, and probably what you're used to from Ubuntu anyway.

Install "gdm", to get a nice graphical login manager that XFCE should be able to tell to shutdown the computer (again, I don't really know for sure...I'm not familiar with XFCE).

A more lightweight alternative to gdm is xdm. Maybe xdm will work, but it's really very basic.

[netstrider]

Thank you for your help, installed GDM now and am going to test it... anyone else with some help for a lost guy ?

EDIT: Unfortunately GDM is ignored...

EDIT AGAIN: GMD works perfect, still can't shut down tho...