rej
You got it! gvfs was already present as being installed, but that may have gotten in there with what I installed that I saw in MX17 – just went down the list and loaded what was connected with thunar and not there by default, since MX works flawlessly.
gvfs-backends held back 119 packages that failed and just loaded one. That must have been the one that changed it! Now eject, and auto-mount work perfectly.
Haven’t tried DVD/CDROMS yet, but I suspect it will work.
Looks like all 3 file managers are functioning properly now.
There are little quirks with switching from icewm to xfce, but overall – it runs very nicely. I am just not knowledgable enough sometimes with what to search for in the system when something does come up. In most cases, it can be found with the help provided.
In itself, it has many advantages that seem to be a combination of the 2 desktops.
I remember having a little trouble with it changing wallpaper through the desktop setting, but in thunar you can just right click on a photo that you have saved and select “set as wallpaper”. I don’t recall what I had changed in the (right click dropdown) desktop settings to make it work, but eventually it did. It might have been using one through thunar that jump-started it. That desktop setting works perfectly now.
Thank you so much!
- This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by rej.