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====== DBUS & Automount ======

** Running X from ''startx'' and making automount work **

===== Background =====

I don't use a ''DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT'' on Linux - I boot to a console and start X11 via the ''startx'' command.

This runs commands from ''~/.xinitrc''

<code bash>

xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults
setxkbmap -layout gb
xset s noblank
xset s noexpose
xset -dpms

~/bin/background.sh &

dwmblocks &

xfce4-power-manager &

pasystray &

nm-applet &

exec dwm

</code>

My **window manager** is ''DWM'' and I don't want/need all the extra stuff of a ''desktop environment''

I //**would**// however like to be able to ''automount'' external USB drives rather than what I do currently

<code bash>

sudo dmesg #find drive device
sudo mount /dev/xxxx /mnt

</code>

then copy files as necessary between ''/mnt/xxxxx'' and the machine's filesystem

Afterwards....

<code bash>

cd
sudo sync
sudo umount /mnt

</code>


===== Graphical File Manager =====

I installed ''Thunar'' along with ''gvfs'' and all the additional stuff I //thought// I needed (''gvfs-backends*'' etc).

But Thunar complained that ''it appears you don't have gvfs'' or similar...

I briefly tried installing the ''MATE'' Desktop environment - and then spent a long time forcing it to use ''DWM'' as window manager, and turning off as much as I could

  * uninstalled ''caja''
  * uninstalled ''mate-panel''
  * edited via ''dconf-editor'' to make ''dwm'' start as window manager....

Then ''Thunar'' //**was**// happy with ''gvfs'' and would ''automount'' a USB drive (or more importantly my Swiss Micros calculator's USB drive).

But I wasn't happy with this as a solution - too messy and too much crap going on - messing up the appearance of GTK-aware apps like ''claws-mail'' and ''GNUCASH''

I wanted to get back to simply running ''DWM'' etc. without all the rest


===== DBUS =====

It appears the issue is that with my method of starting ''X'' via ''~/.xinitrc'' I fail to correctly start ''DBUS''. This needs to be started correctly in the setting up of an ''X-session''

The answer isn't to add an invocation of ''DBUS'' into my ''~/.xinitrc'' as I first thought.

The answer is to let ''X11'' start via the **SYSTEM** ''xinitrc'' which only happens **as long as I don't have my own ''~/.xinitrc''**

Starting ''X'' this way which will then run various other things, including ''DBUS'', as the ''XSession'' is spun-up via ''startx''

Then the process is finished by running my file ''~/.xsession'' - which is actually just my ''~/.xinitrc'' file renamed to ''~/.xsession''. 

I found this at [[https://momi.ca/posts/2021-10-11-startxdebian/]] which describes my own situation perfectly, and the solution works perfectly.

I can still boot into a console session, and use ''startx'' to switch to ''DWM'' - and automount works for ''Thunar''


===== Further Information =====


{{tag>dbus startx thunar automount}}



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