gnome-free automounting removable media in F10; gnome-volume-manager problem

[pm02134]

I use FVWM and in F4 and F9, I've used a trick I picked up from Jim Carter to automount USB memory & other media (about half way down, he has a section titled "Automatic Volume Mounting Without KDE or Gnome." ) The essential ingredients are hal, dbus, and gnome-volume-manager.

essentially, it calls for these commands:

dbus=(`dbus-daemon --session --fork --print-pid=1 --print-address=1`)
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=${dbus[0]}
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=${dbus[1]}
gnome-volume-manager --daemon=yes --sm-disable

In F4, I needed all four lines. In F9, I just use the last line. But now in F10, it doesn't work at all!! Well, I can get automounting or something close to it if I run gnome, but I really do prefer a stripped-down fvwm session.

I've verified that dbus sees the drive (using dbus-monitor), but gnome-volume-manager doesn't seem to do anything. Is there a problem with gnome-volume-manager, or could it be my setup?

relevant packages:

F10
gnome-volume-manager.x86_64      2.24.0-1.fc10
dbus.x86_64                      1:1.2.4-2.fc10
hal.x86_64                       0.5.12-14.20081027git.fc10

F9
gnome-volume-manager.x86_64      2.17.0-8.fc8
dbus.x86_64                      1.2.1-1.fc9
hal.x86_64                       0.5.11-0.7.rc2.fc9

F4
gnome-volume-manager-1.3.1-1.src.rpm
dbus-0.33-3.fc4.1.src.rpm
hal-0.5.2-2.fc4.1.src.rpm

[I need to update my profile. I'm now running F10 on a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo E8400]

[pm02134]

"SOLVED." Well, not really. It appears that g-v-m has been eviscerated. Functionality in the gnome world has moved to nautilus, which I find baffling.

Bug 509823 - remove autorun/automount options (gnome-volume-manager)
Bug 564919 - gnome-volume-manager still providing preferences (GUI and gconf) that no longer operate (gnome-volume-manager)

[pm02134]

SOLVED (90%)!

grabbed a copy of gnome-volume-manager-2.17.0-8.fc8.x86_64.rpm from pbone. (mostly) Nautilus-free automounting of usb's restored!

A nautilus file browser opens, but I get to keep my fvwm root window. Now I just need to figure out how to suppress the nautilus window from popping up.

[pm02134]

Thank you, Jeff Stedfast.

g-v-m full functionality is just a switch away:

First, to take care of dependencies, it might be wise to use your favorite package loader to install and then uninstall a packaged version of g-v-m.

then you compile from source with "--enable-automount"

git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-volume-manager
cd gnome-volume-manager
./autogen.sh --enable-automount
make
sudo make install

[reed9]

Thanks for following up on this. Good to know there are options.

I've always just used the file manager thunar and thunar-volume-manager for automounting.
Thunar Volume Manager (thunar-volman) [Xfce Goodies]

[pm02134]

Thanks for the heads up on thunar and thunar-volume-manager! I use emacs as my file browser, and now that emacs-23 has tools to talk to dbus, maybe someone will make an automounter that runs within emacs!