Auto-mounting USB drives with EXWM

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Use udiskie to auto-mount devices plugged in to your machine, such as flash drives. I found that trying to install it from my OpenSUSE packagemanager didn’t work, alhtough it was listed, but I already had pip installed and that led to simple process. After installation, the following worked beautifully:

~/.local/bin/udiskie --no-notify --tray &

notifications did not play nice with exwm, but the tray works great. Then I just put the above into my .xinitrc.

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Tory Anderson
Web App Engineer, Digital Humanist, Researcher, Computer Psychologist