RE: Could someone please respond...

["Roger Vaughn" <rvaughn pobox com>]

Well, I just checked, and with the latest RPM's, I don't have this option on
my menus, either.

What you *do* have is a "Recreate Desktop Shortcuts" option.  This will
create the desktop icons for any mountable devices you have rights to.  You
can then right-click these to mount/unmount.

rog

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hall [mailto:dhs@erinet.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 2:14 PM
> To: Tim Lewis; Sri Ramkrishna
> Cc: Gnome List
> Subject: Re: Could someone please respond...
>
>
> GMC, I believe, only puts the links for items that you, as
> whatever user you
> are logged on as, have permissions/rights to mount and/or unmount.
>
> RedHat, for example, does *not* have the floppy, CD-Rom drive,
> etc as being
> mountable by "normal" users. You have to change your /etc/fstab file to
> allow this. Are other distros the same way ?
>
> Hall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tim Lewis <tlewis@timelinevista.com>
> Subject: Re: Could someone please respond...
>
>
> > Directory.  A right-click on my desktop yields the GMC menu.  This menu
> > does not contain the menu selection 'Re-scan mountable devices'.  It is
> > my understanding that if this option were present, selecting it would
> > place an icon for the floppy and CD-ROM on my desktop.
> >
> > So my question/problem is, "How do I get this menu item to appear in my
> > GMC desktop menu?"
>
>
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