RE: Disappearing CDROM icon

[bill helke cp Novartis com]

Collin:

I was the one who posted to the mailing list about this about a month ago.
Magicdev is a new RedHat (RHAD?) "feature" to automount CDROMS (ala Windoze)
and open an appropriate associated program (i.e. GnomeRPM for the RedHat
CDROM, or CD Player for a music CD).  It's OK, but too Windozey for me (I'm
a control freak).  Remove magicdev (rpm -e magicdev) and rescan your desktop
devices.  Then you will have a "permanent" CDROM icon again.  Removal of
this package also removes the CD device caplet in gnome control-center.

Unfortunately, this does not solve the also new feature of your system
rescanning the desktop icons each time you mount a CD.  I am not sure which
program handles this and have not been able to resolve this issue.  Each
rescan of your desktop device icons resets them to their default pixmaps and
labels - i.e. the stupid "Disk 1", "Disk 2", etc.  I like to have a zip disk
pixmap on my zip drive icon and have the drive labels customized to "zip
drive", "win-c", "floppy", etc.  If anyone knows which package controls this
rescan behaviour, please post!  I'd like to try to disable it if possible.

Thanks.

William F. Helke

-----Original Message-----
From: Collin Brown [mailto:colbrown@iname.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 12:57 PM
To: gnome-list@gnome.org
Subject: Disappearing CDROM icon


I just upgraded to REDHAT 6.1; previously I was running Redhat 6.0 with
October Gnome.

Whenever I unmount my cdrom, or eject it via the desktop icon, the desktop
icon for the cdrom disappears.
To get it to reappear, I have to remount the cdrom from the command line, or
linuxconf.

Is this some new "feature"?
How can I get the CDROM icon to remain on the desktop regardless of the
state of the cdrom.

Collin


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