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Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thanks. I don't use lxqt as my DE though. I use a custom DE based on i3. I will look into it.

Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks. I will try this method as well. For now, pmount seems to work fine.

Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Thanks a lot. That works.

Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your response. But the Debian package is not maintained. Do you know of any other way?

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Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi friends,

I have some external hard drives and SSDs, which I use with my Debian 11 machine. I normally use them through the GUI file manager(pcmanfm-qt). I tried to access them from the terminal using commands I found after searching the web, like, fdisk, mount etc. However, the issue is that I have to use sudo when using these commands and as a result after mounting I cannot make changes to my files in the drive(s) without using sudo. The only way to avoid using sudo, is to first go to the required folder in the GUI file manager and then opening the folder in terminal. Is there a way to forego using the GUI file manager completely and only using the terminal entirely to properly access my drives and make changes without using sudo?

EDIT: Someone suggested usbmount. I am sure that works, but it is not packaged for Debian. Instead, as suggested, by another person, I use pmount. It works perfectly for my needs on Debian. Thanks to all for taking the time to respond and help me with my problem.

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[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It is in human nature to keep improving the state of things.

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[SOLVED] Brave Browser not launching in LXQT in Debian 12 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi folks. I have installed Debian 12 bullseye with the lxqt desktop environment. I have run lxqt sessions on it using xfwm4, as well as i3wm, as the window manager. However, for some weird reason brave browser would not launch - neither in xfwm4 nor in i3-wm. So I tried to run the command in the shell to see what output it would produce. I have attached the image which shows the output of the command "brave-browser" in a terminal running the bash shell.

Please help to solve this problem. I love using Firefox but I also love having options and Brave happens to be one of my favourites. (In case, this is relevant, Chromium and Qutebrowser run without any issues. Only Brave is behaving in a weird manner).

EDIT: I have found the solution. One needs to add the flag --disable-features=AllowQt when running it from the command line. However, as I couldn't get hold of Brave's config file, I have just added an alias in my bashrc and made changes to brave's .dekstop file in /usr/share/applications and my i3 config file.

To the folks who posted useless comments instead of actually helping: Thanks for nothing.