Re: Nasty surprise. Who is the culprit?

["Sean Middleditch" <sean middleditch Iname com>]

This is a "FEATURE."  (We've heard that before).  Um, I dislike it as well.
In the GNOME control center, there are options to configure exaclty what is
done when a CD is put in the drive (I like it automatically playing music
CDs), but for some reason, the options don't stay the way I select them (is
this a known bug, GNOME people?).

Um, I think you can remove the magicdev program (rpm -e magicdev, when it's
not running) to remove this feature if you hate it as much as you seem to.

I would love it if the configuration would keep my selections, and if I
could select to NOT place icons on the desktop (I don't use them, either).

Sean Middleditch

----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Volovics <awol@xs4all.nl>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 4:29 AM
Subject: Nasty surprise. Who is the culprit?


> Installed RH 6.1 and October Gnome yesterday and I got a
> nasty surprise.
>
> If I put a cdrom in the drive or a floppy in the floppy drive
> the drives are automatically mounted and the disks opened and
> the contents displayed in gmc.
>
> To make matters worse 2 icons are planted on the desktop, one for
> the cdrom and one for the floppy (even though only one is in use).
>
> 1) I do not want any icons on the desktop
> 2) I do not use gmc (or any other graphical file manager)
> 3) I do not appreciate these Windows tricks
>
> Using the drive mount applets on the panel and clicking to mount is
> as far as I am willing to go. (If by any chance I wanted to use gmc
> to scan the contents I could then CHOOSE to do so).
> I want to control the mounting.
>
> Who is guilty of this aberration: RedHat or Gnome (or both in collusion)?
> Why is it not mentioned in the documentation?
> (at least I haven't been able to find it up to now).
>
> Is there some simple (Gnome) configuration setting to undo this?
> (again if there is I haven't been able to find it up to now).
> And if it is not there it should be!
>
>
> Alexander
>
> -------------------------------------
> Alexander Volovics
> Dept of Methodology & Statistics
> Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL
> email: a.volovics@stat.unimaas.nl
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>
>
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