Re: GWorkspace: icons shown on the Desktop even without any plugged device

On 2025-10-31 17:00:43 +0100 Riccardo Mottola 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
> 
> sorry it is taking so long, I am trying to understand what is going 
> on at 
> your side!

Do not be sorry, I had family at home, so I was long too... ;-)

> 
> Patrick Cardona wrote:
> 
>> Before You asked, I tought I did not, but as I searched in the 
>> installed 
>> packages list, I found "udisks2" and its libraries was installed, so 
>> I 
>> guess this is a dependency side effect, but not in the list I was 
>> aware 
>> when building AGNoStep Desktop.
> 
> 
> Is it "interfering" somehow? if you insert something will it show in 
> /etc/mtab? I will mount disks usually automatically in a different 
> place, 
> e.g. /usr/media or /media?
> 
> I was able to get GWorkspace get along with an automounter too, but 
> it is a 
> bit different and each time a different tweak.

I did not see any change in /etc/mtab unless I did myself a mounting 
action. I think 'udisks2' is there to inteact with GTK or KDE desktops 
with DBus explicit queries:
Althougt I use DBusKit for the notifications with SimpleAgenda, I do 
not know any other GNUstep application using it.
See: 
https://documentation.ubuntu.com/core/explanation/system-snaps/udisks2/

...

> 
> 
>> The disk CRUCIAL is not plugged.
> 
>> patrick@pi400:~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep -e "/mnt/CRUCIAL"
>> patrick@pi400:~ $ echo $?
>> 1
> 

Nothing found.

> 
>> Plugging the CRUCIAL disk.
>> Shortcut #E
>> The two disks icons (CRUCIAL and CLEPAT) are shown on the Desktop.
> 
> That is a mystery.
> 
> Please check SystemPreferences Volumes.
> 
> - under reserved mount types you should have just system stuff: proc, 
> shm and 
> suc suff. I also have usbdevfs (don't remember what it is)

Reserved mount types are:
proc
devpts
shm
usbdevfs
devpts (weird: twice!)
sysfs
tmpfs


> - under removable media you should have only /mnt/CRUCIAL and 
> /mnt/CLEPAT

That is the case.

> 
> then you should have /etc/mtab set

mtab path is:
/etc/mtab

> 
> I have a doubt: what are CRUCIAL and CLEPAT ? two USB disks ? are the 
> UUID 
> correct?

Yes, because they should not mount nor let see contents with bad UUID.

> 
> Question other way around. If you use just a command line and do 
> mount, if 
> you plug in one or the other, do they land correctly in the 
> respective mount 
> points?

Yes.

- CRUCIAL is a SATA BX500 2.5 SSD disk, mounted with a Sabrent SSD TO 
USB 3.0 adaptator.

Manually mounting from a shell after the disk was plugged:

$> mount /mnt/CRUCIAL
The relevant icon disk is shown by itself on the Desktop (and only 
this icon): I did not have to use #E.
Browsing the content is ok.

Unmounting from the shell:

$> umount /mnt/CRUCIAL
The relevant icon disk desappeared from the Desktop: again, I did not 
have to use #E.

- CLEPAT is a USB stick.

Manually mounting from a shell after the stick was plugged:

$> mount /mnt/CLEPAT

The relevant icon disk is shown by itself on the Desktop (and only 
this icon): I did not have to use #E.
Browsing the content is ok.

Unmounting from the shell:

$> umount /mnt/CLEPAT

The relevant icon disk desappeared from the Desktop: again, I did not 
have to use #E.


Cheers,
Patrick

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Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.1)
Xorg (1:7.7+24) - libcairo2 (1.18.4-1+rpt1 arm64)
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