Re: [Nautilus-list] How to suppress new window when mounting file system

[René Seindal <rene seindal dk>]

On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 13:06, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> le mar 01-01-2002 à 00:46, Darin Adler a écrit :
> > On 12/26/01 8:09 AM, "René Seindal" <rene seindal dk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Every time I mount a user-mountable file system from the command line
> > > nautilus opens a new window for the newly mounted file system.
> > 
> > I'm not aware of this feature.
> > 
> > As far as I know the only kind of file system that Nautilus opens a window
> > for is something mounted in a CD-ROM drive. Other user-mountable file
> > systems should not cause a window to open.

It is true it only happens with CD-Roms.  When I mounted ny digital
camera from the commandline Nautilus did not open a new window.

> > This feature is controlled by the pre-existing setting in the Gnome control
> > center rather than by a Nautilus preference (confusing, I think). The
> > internal config key is "/magicdev/Options/do_fileman_window". I'm not sure
> > how this shows up in the user interface, but I think it might be something
> > like "open window when CD-ROM is mounted".

I have found no such option in the control center (Debian 3.0)

> I plan to work on this "problem" since magicdev is only available on
> RedHat, not on Debian, nor MandrakeLinux (and probably other..)
> 
> My suggestion would be :
> -If mount is done through Nautilus (on Desktop, right click, Disks/Mount
> point), Nautilus open a new window.
> -If mount is not done by nautilus (ie through command line..), Nautilus
> doesn't open a new window.
> 
> In the same idea, when umounting a CDROM drive, nautilus should only
> eject CDROMS when umount was done via Nautilus..
> 
> Are you ok with this design ?

It seems to be the right way to do it.

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René Seindal (rene seindal dk)              http://www.seindal.dk/rene/