Usb stick won't appear on XFCE4 desktop

I have a regular, standard install of Arch.
I used pacman -Syu to upgrade system.
I have kernel 3.12.6-1-ARCH.
Computer has been restarted.
I have XFCE4 desktop environment.
I have empty usb sticks formatted to ext4.
These sticks won't show up on desktop or in Thunar file manager.
They do show up in terminal with lsblk -f as sdb1.
How can I get usb stick to show up in filesystem?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … tomounting
Not a Kernel issue, moving to NC...

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