On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 23:19:47 -0300
Fernando Cassia <fcassia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm curious as to what is the technical name given to these
pseudo-URLs used by Caja (formerly Nautilus) on Mate Desktop...
When I plug USB flash drives / Thumb Drives / Pen Drives (use your
naming choice) I get those automagically mounted (automount).
But when I plug my Samsung Android smartphone I get this folder
displayed... mtp://[usb:001,009]/
Containing two pseudo-devices "Phone" and "SD Card".
All looks very nice, except that the devices are NOT mounted as
regular filesystem folders. I can only see them on the GUI through
Caja.
I want to assign the devices some name like /media/myuser/something.
How do I achieve this and what is the logic of mounting these devices
"GUI only" and unaccessible (afaik) from the command line?
I tried "mounting" these pseudo-devices like
mtp://[usb:001,009]/Phone
but BASH knows nothing about "mtp://" devices. This seems to be some
shitty Mate Desktop invention.
On my previous usage of Gnome 2 many moons ago (Sun JDS) this wasn't
the case, I remember USB mass storage devices magically appeared on
the desktop, and that's what I expect here too... but somewhere along
the long fork road, Mate Desktop developers came up with this mtp://
monstrosity.
what about this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-connections-explained-mtp-pt...
dave
Any clues? I tried complaining but I don't even know the name of these
damn mtp:// pseudo devices annoyance.
When was this introduced and who thought it was a great idea? I'd like
to know some real (person) names if possible to complain in person
about the hideous nature of this idea...
TIA...
FC
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