Simon Reap made a very useful point:
> > On 01/06/2020 11:34, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
> > mount /dev/sdb1 /media/flash
> >
> > I can read from the flash drive, but only write to it using
> > the command line as root, which is not very convenient.
>
> Before you get the pop-up to work again, you could try
>
> mount -o uid=xxx,gid=xxx /dev/sdb1 /media/flash
>
> where "xxx" is the user/group name of your logged-in user. That way all
> files on the drive will appear to be owned by that user, allowing reads
> and writes from applications etc.
Thank you Simon! I've been trying to do that, but couldn't
get the syntax right - man mount gave me the impression it
was possible, but it could do with a few examples. I tried
chmod, which pretended to do the job (with the -c option)
but in reality had no effect.
I have tried reinstalling x11-session-utils and udisks,
thinking this might be a USB problem: no effect. Now I
suspect something has gone wrong with a panel configuration
file. Everything else on the panel seems to be working
properly.
Peter Alefounder.
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