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How to properly start gvfs without gnome?

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Mar 15, 202612358 views
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I have a Debian testing box with Xfce (no Gnome, no Nautilus). It has all gvfs-related stuff installed, including all backends and fuse interface. But any attempts to anything (like sftp://... or smb://...) fail with , and shows only 'unix device (file)' in the list of supported protocols. My has p…

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gvfs-mount

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This answer is based on the behavior I've seen in Arch Linux. Hopefully it is not much different from Debian's. (Also, because it was empirically determined, I am not sure if it is going to be actually a good one.) It seems like you have to ensure t…

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