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Thunar Volume Manager (thunar-volman)
The Thunar Volume Manager is an extension for the Thunar file manager, which enables automatic management of removable drives and media. For example, if thunar-volman is installed and configured properly, and you plug in your digital camera, it will automatically launch your preferred photo application and import the new pictures from the camera into your photo collection.
The advantage of Thunar Volume Manager over other solutions (like gnome-volume-manager or ivman) is that it does not require an additional daemon to be running in the users desktop session, which means it is a very lightweight solution. In addition, the Thunar Volume Manager smoothly integrates into the Thunar file manager and the Xfce desktop.
It was designed to look and behave similar to gnome-volume-manager to get consistent removable drive and media management in Xfce and GNOME. This is to help GNOME refugees and people using both Xfce and GNOME.
Installation
Requirements
You will need at least the following software packages in order to install and use the Thunar Volume Manager:
Stable releases
Source tarballs of the latest stable release 0.9.5 (and earlier releases) are available from the Xfce Archive download page.
Getting the source from GIT
The Thunar Volume Manager - is available from the Xfce Git repository, which means that you will need to install a Subversion client in order to be able to check out from the GIT repository (you can use the web interface for browsing the repository).
You can download the latest version of thunar-volman using the following command:
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar-volman
This will create a new directory thunar-volman in the current path, which contains the latest version from the repository.
Building and installing
If you downloaded a release tarball, you can simply run
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
now. The prefix must be the same prefix where Thunar is installed. You can find out the prefix using the following command:
pkg-config --variable prefix thunarx-1
Else you may need to run:
sh autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
instead, because the automatically generated files are not included in the repository.
If the configure script complains about missing thunarx-1 package and you are using a binary package for Thunar, be sure to install the appropriate -devel package (i.e. for Debian/Ubuntu it is libthunar-vfs-1-dev). Next, you continue with
make make install
where the install step must be done with superuser privileges.
Reporting Bugs
If you are experiencing a bug in thunar-volman
, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in Xfce GitLab. Please note that to do this you will need to have / create an account.
Report a new bug
If your bug has not been reported before, please submit a new bug report.
When writing your bug report, try to be as descriptive as possible, but avoid verbosity; Mozilla has a nice guide on how to write a bug report.
For more information, see Bug Reporting and Fixing.
File a new bug or enhancement request
Open Bugs
Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis.
- Drive isn't automatically mounted on startup (2022/10/28 23:21)
- "Removable drives and media" name is confusing (2022/08/27 19:31)
- Add tab "Mobile Devices" with sync support for Android / IOs (2022/08/27 19:30)
- Thunar-volman mounts non-removable devices (2022/07/15 22:28)
- Input device events notifications duplicated (2020/12/19 23:01)
- No sound when inserting or removing a device (2020/09/28 23:24)
- [PATCH] Prompt user to choose whether to play video DVD (2020/05/26 00:48)
- XFCE hangs during RAID resync (2020/05/25 23:11)
- thunar-volman misdetects usb serial as removable (2020/05/25 23:11)
- Mixed data CDs are mounted as two different devices (2020/05/25 23:11)
- thunar-volman: Unknown block device type "disk". (2020/05/25 23:11)
- automount is not handled well with multiple xfce sessions (2020/05/25 23:10)
- No automount of large >1TB removable drives (2020/05/25 23:10)
- Automount doesn't work. (2020/05/25 23:09)
- Make desired mount points for drives/volumes configurable (2020/05/25 23:09)
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