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

Hi Riccardo,

To complete my previous answer:

- I am working on an alternative flavour for my AGNoStep Desktop 
(AGNoStep C5C: it stands for "AGNoStep Classic" because it uses WMDock 
on the right side) which could provide a work around to this issue:

- Firstly: because the conky panel tended to disappear randomly, I 
have been working on a more classic basis: so all the monitoring needs 
are provided with dockapps or with docked GNUstep apps. See the 
screenshot below: date and weather (wminfo), time (AClock), uptime, 
memory free (wminfo again), CPU (TimeMon), Storage (wmdiskmon), 
Network (wmdn), Updater and Birthday/feast notifications (wmtext)...

- And namely, the dockapp 'wmudmount' (associated with 'udisks2') 
allows us to mount/umount the effective plugged removable device. And, 
as said previously, GWorkspace shows accordingly the relevant disk 
icon on the desktop, without the need to use the command #E.

- Unmounting with DND onto the Recycler is still working, as an 
alternative to the umount button of the dockapp. So 'wmudmount' seems 
quite consistent with GWorkspace.

- Drawback: with the modern dock on the left side to handle GNUstep 
apps and the tiled WMDock on the right side, to handle monitoring and 
interactive dockapps, the aesthetism of AGNoStep is less consistent, 
but I think the user experience is better than with conky.

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P.S.: all the message tools are localized in English and French. This 
new C5C flavour has not yet been pushed to the git repo, because I 
have not yet tested on a laptop with battery monitoring...

Cheers Patrick

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!
> 
> 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 GWorkspac eget along with an automounter too, but 
> it is a 
> bit different and each time a different tweak.
> 
> 
>> The disk CRUCIAL is not plugged.
> 
>> patrick@pi400:~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep -e "/mnt/CRUCIAL"
>> patrick@pi400:~ $ echo $?
>> 1
> 
> Ok. So it appears not there. Plese check mtab to see if it comes p 
> with 
> another name. E.g.
> 
> grep /etc/mtab CRUCIAL
> grep /etc/mtab usb
> grep /etc/mtab sd
> 
> as suggestions
> 
> 
> 
>>> Use the file browser to go to /mnt/CRUCIAL
> 
>>> Does it show empty or content?
>> It is empty.
> 
> 
> Ok.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>> If you mount the disk by "check disks" does it show then min mtab? 
>>> Or does 
>>> it show in a different way than before it is was there before?
> 
>> 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)
> - under removable media you hould have only /mnt/CRUCIAL and 
> /mnt/CLEPAT
> 
> then you should have /etc/mtab set
> 
> I have a doubt: what are CRUCIAL and CLEPAT ? two USB disks ? are the 
> UUID 
> correct?
> 
> 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?
> 
> Riccardo
> 

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Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.1)
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