Automounting encrypted flash drives in Gnome+xmonad

[sktsee]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:57:30 -0700, Caleb wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. Whenever I'm using the default Unity desktop
> environment (or using the Gnome Classic session with Metacity), a flash
> drive with a LUKS-encrypted filesystem is automatically mounted whenever
> it's plugged in. This happens without any entries in /etc/fstab; I
> simply save the decryption passphrase for the drive in my keyring.
> 
> When I use an alternative windows manager in my Gnome session (in my
> case,
> xmonad), the USB drive is not automounted when plugged in. How can I get
> the encrypted flash drive to automount in Gnome+xmonad?

[snipped]

> 
> so I suppose my question could be rephrased as "what
> process/daemon/helper causes the encrypted-unlock operation of udisks2
> to execute when an encrypted flash drive is plugged in?"
> 
> Any advice or suggestions for a more appropriate place to ask this
> question would be greatly appreciated.

If you open a terminal and type "nautilus -n", and then plug your USB 
drive in, does it get automounted? 

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sktsee