O' Tay, I have a few different WM/DE installed here on VOidLiNux -- now this automounting of the USB Ports, is getting me very curious as to how does lxde and Enlightenment automount when i3 and dwm does not, mostly thinking in the manner of pcmanfm or simulaire FileManager when open up one needs to see the USB mounted devices, what ever they are and reguardless if it is on, /dev/sdc . /dev/sdd , /dev/sde etc... I was reading how to's on this matter using autofs - then in my working this almost solution, when I went to istall autofs and seen that is was going to install it. I stopped -- said to myself, if it is not installed, then what is this system using to do the same thing I want it to do already? Just not in i3 or dwm when I am using pcmanfm, but in my de lxde and E they work with their respective filemanangers, and on the deaktops, minus the desktop, in i3 and dwm, because they are titling wm. nevertheless the filemanagers within these two wm and others should still have this same capability to automount USB Ports. with autofs this help me how to post is telling me I have to get the make of what ever it is that is pluged into it not just the fact that something just got pluged into it so figure it out then deal with it accordingly. as this is what my DE are doing. example right now I have a little Andriod Phone pluged in so I can copy some movies over onto it to watch , and a 1TB hard drive using an IDE to USB adaptor. /run/media/userx/4489-120D <--- that being my android Ph /dev/sdc /run/media/userx/winlinux <--- that being my external HDD /dev/sdd these are generic mount points that to me have to be getting generated automaticlly and not like it is said to do using autofs where I have to explicedly tell it the make of what ever it is I am pluging into the USB port limiting the ability to just plug in what ever make of USB stick or hdd / exteranl HDD to use in USB. (I maybe off on this thought a little) but nevertheless, this instruction is telling me I have to write a file in the example they show this, $ udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sdc/ | grep model ATTRS{model}=="Ext HDD 1021 " Now, that we have model attribute, we can add it to /etc/udev/rules.d/custom.rules by following line: SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", ATTRS{model}=="Ext HDD 1021 ", SYMLINK+="Iomega%n" I understand in /etc/udev/rules.d/ the only file I have in their so far is this one, 10-network.rules SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="00:21:6a:be:c7:08", NAME="wlan0" where the ATTR is hard coded because the MAC address never changes, and the ATTRS for a USB will, this is my andriod ph /run/media/userx/4489-120D userx@void :^rules.d^ @~&udevadm info -a -p /sys/block/sdc | grep model ATTRS{model}=="File-CD Gadget " this is my external HDD /run/media/userx/winlinux userx@void :^rules.d^ @~&udevadm info -a -p /sys/block/sdd | grep model ATTRS{model}==" " as you can see between /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd the ATTRS will change depending on what it is one plugs into it. as well as where are the files VOidLiNux uses to get their auto mounts working, as I can planly see they are not using the /etc/udev/rules.d/ with USB Ports. VOidLiNux is showing 4489-120D and the lable on the HDD winlinux as mount points, the example for autofs says I got a use the output of udev model one shows something and the other is left blank on my laptop, two different things, meaning I'd ahve to type in every kind of mode that can be plugged into a USB to get it to automount? when I can see VOidLiNux and others have a better way to do it. so the question would be. How do I plug i3 and dwm and anything else (wm/de) I need to in order to use this methoid of behavor that VOidLiNux is having with the DE and E? Especially when using any number of FileManagers. what little "secret" program and or meth are they using to get this auto USB Port mount to work that I can tie into when using pcmanfm in i3 and dwm (so far)?