Defaults for gvfs

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Hello,

As a solution to thunar starting quite slowly, I changed /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/network.mount to have Automount=false. However, regularly, that is reverted during system update, probably because it’s a system file. So I would like to change the option in userspace instead, which I have seen should be by adding the folder in ~/.gvfs/mounts. I’m just unsure if I can do that without modifying default behaviours, as there are a lot of things in /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/, so what will happen if I put only network.mount in userspace? Will it ignore all the others or will it still read the remainder from the system defaults?

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Where did you see that? Must be outdated.

man gvfs

It searches $XDG_DATA_DIRS paths and take the first match. /usr/local/share/gvfs/mounts would be a better place.

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Thanks for your answer

I saw it in the archwiki (File manager functionality - ArchWiki):
" /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/ contains mount rules for GVFS. To use one’s own rules, create ~/.gvfs/mounts."

So if I add network.mount in /usr/local/share/gvfs/mounts, will it keep using the other files from /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/ or should I copy everything ? In the second case, would that cause issues the day the system adds things in /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/?

(gvfs seems pretty essential so I don’t want to break it accidentally)

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When you want to override the defaults - place a copy of the config in the relevant folder in your home - then edit that file.

If you don’t - and instead edit in place - you changes will be overwritten with a sync.

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Thanks for the answers.

I finally got around to playing with this again and wanted to test what worked or not, but it turns out I cannot reproduce the slow Thunar start when automount is activated (even though I consistently had the issue for years, it was just so fast to fix it every 6 months or so that I never got around to try and find a long term fix before)

So I cannot test any answer. Thanks anyways!

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