Mounting partition and external hdds in xmonad

Hi all,
Recently i ditched DE in favor of tiling windows( XMonad in particular) and now I want to know which is the best file manager for it.
I have thunar installed but it doesn't automatically mount my external hard disks and my partitions.
I am able to do so only if I run
dbus-launch thunar
some one in irc suggested that doing that is not a good way.
So I want to know filemanager that mounts external hdd and partitions automatically.
Thanks,
Abhinav
Last edited by pyarch (2014-08-27 01:42:36)

Stebalien wrote:
pyarch wrote:
Stebalien wrote:You don't need a filemanager for that. Personally, I use udiskie however, if you want to use thunar as your filemanager, you can start thunar-volman at login to automount drives.
I have udiskie installed but it doesn't do anything am i missing something ?
Did you start it? If you did, you should see an icon in your tray/notification icon area (if you have one) and it should automount external disks when you plug them in.
start as in ?
systemctl start udisks2

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