Where's "My Computer"?

Kidfork · 2010-11-25 00:39:14

Alright so I'm new to arch and everythings a little bit different from Ubuntu and Windows. One thing that I miss and was wondering where its hiding was My Computer. Im looking for a place where I can go through my partitions, play with my CD drive etc. I've also noticed in "kinfocenter" my paritions do not show up, I was wondering what gives, but they show up fine in Gparted, All help will be apreciated.

Thank You Very Much

Hund · 2010-11-25 00:42:20

Im guessing "My Computer" is something GNOME, KDE etc uses.

Did you mount your partitions?

wonder · 2010-11-25 01:02:29

what are you trying to say? that arch after installation only has a console?

Last edited by wonder (2010-11-25 01:04:13)

manmachine · 2010-11-25 01:30:06

I guess you mean something like the ubuntu/mandriva control center, similar to windows control panel?
screenshots:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wmtCDsEylFI/T … UCC%29.png
http://kernelnews.com/articles/2010/ima … center.jpg

If that's what you're after...there is no such beast in Arch. If you need a gui for everything there are plenty of individual tools i guess. For example gparted does everything that can be done in these 'control panels' as far as partitions are concerned. If you're using kde, the kde control panel can be used for plenty of stuff as well. Haven't used kde for a long time but I remember you could even install system fonts with kcontrol. But to get the most out of arch you need some time and inclination to learn how things work and are glued together...it's no big deal, and the wiki is your friend.

hume's doona · 2010-11-25 01:42:33

what de/wm are you using?

you mean like win xp, 'my computer' that was on the desktop?

so thunar, dolphin etc, but partitions aren't showing?

to do it manually, mount it in a terminal, then find it in thunar etc. to do it auto, edit fstab

or am i misinterpreting?

Kidfork · 2010-11-25 01:43:05

Alright I guess I can live without those ameneties, but how would I go about mounting a DVD drive as theres no "automatic" popup when I place a CD or DVD in.

Arch is very different from Ubuntu, I like it, I feel more of a "hardcore linux user" LOL

hume's doona · 2010-11-25 01:47:13

Kidfork wrote:

Alright I guess I can live without those ameneties, but how would I go about mounting a DVD drive as theres no "automatic" popup when I place a CD or DVD in.
Arch is very different from Ubuntu, I like it, I feel more of a "hardcore linux user" LOL

there are multiple ways to do it, including hal and evdev

what's in your /etc/fstab file?

drcouzelis · 2010-11-25 02:05:50

Kidfork wrote:

Alright I guess I can live without those ameneties...

You don't have to live without them. There isn't anything in Ubuntu that you can't do in Arch. The difference is, of course, in Arch, you have to set it up yourself.

I think people are having a hard time understanding exactly what you are looking for.

Kidfork · 2010-11-25 02:15:24

hume's doona wrote:

Kidfork wrote:
Alright I guess I can live without those ameneties, but how would I go about mounting a DVD drive as theres no "automatic" popup when I place a CD or DVD in.
Arch is very different from Ubuntu, I like it, I feel more of a "hardcore linux user" LOL
there are multiple ways to do it, including hal and evdev
what's in your /etc/fstab file?

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 0 1

drcouzelis wrote:

Kidfork wrote:
Alright I guess I can live without those ameneties...
You don't have to live without them. There isn't anything in Ubuntu that you can't do in Arch. The difference is, of course, in Arch, you have to set it up yourself.
I think people are having a hard time understanding exactly what you are looking for.

I'm basicly looking for something like this

http://techgage.com/reviews/software/op … _thumb.png

Where you have acess to your hard drives, OS info, etc.

fsckd · 2010-11-25 02:19:27

Can you tell us what desktop environment or stand-alone window manager you are using?

hume's doona · 2010-11-25 02:20:05

if you uncomment the cd rom and dvd entries in fstab, your optical rive should automount after a reboot

you can add entries for partitions too [/dev/sda1 etc] then they'll show up in whatever use [konquerer, dolphin, pcmamfm, thunar etc]

there might be a better way though

Kidfork · 2010-11-25 02:22:36

fsckd wrote:

Can you tell us what desktop environment or stand-alone window manager you are using?

KDE - Dolphin

hume's doona · 2010-11-25 02:26:52

that's with pcmanfm, but dolphin would show the same, if you added an entry in fstab, then your other partitions/drives would show as well.

Am I on the wrong track here?

You just want to access drives, no?

hume's doona · 2010-11-25 02:41:55

Kidfork wrote:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 0 1

Where you have acess to your hard drives, OS info, etc.

If you edit that fstab file as sudo:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 0 1
#add a line here for other partitions/hard drives, eg /dev/sda1 / type options

(simply removng the "#" from the start of two lines, and adding lines for other drives i

after that, you will have access to hard drives in any file manager, including dolphin

conky can display os info, I'm not familiar with KDE enough to recommend a gui

also, is the above screeny konqueror?

Last edited by hume's doona (2010-11-25 02:42:53)

anonymous_user · 2010-11-25 02:44:53

The "My Computer" feature from openSUSE can be installed using this package afaik:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18797

Kidfork · 2010-11-25 04:26:36

hume's doona wrote:

Kidfork wrote:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 0 1

Where you have acess to your hard drives, OS info, etc.

If you edit that fstab file as sudo:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 0 1
#add a line here for other partitions/hard drives, eg /dev/sda1 / type options

(simply removng the "#" from the start of two lines, and adding lines for other drives i

after that, you will have access to hard drives in any file manager, including dolphin

conky can display os info, I'm not familiar with KDE enough to recommend a gui

also, is the above screeny konqueror?

Now the only problem i'm having is its complaining about not being mounted when I clickd on it in pacmcf.

Last edited by Kidfork (2010-11-25 04:54:29)

hume's doona · 2010-11-25 05:39:55

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

that's a good, straight forward guide to fstab

can you right click it in a filemanager and select "mount" or similar?

litemotiv · 2010-11-25 07:50:03

Kidfork wrote:

Now the only problem i'm having is its complaining about not being mounted when I clickd on it in pacmcf.

If you're using KDE, you probably don't want Pcmanfm since it's a GTK-application, you'll pull in a lot of extra dependencies.

Apart from that, the solution to the mount problem can be found on the Pcmanfm wiki page.

Cyrusm · 2010-11-25 13:48:33

Kidfork wrote:

Alright so I'm new to arch and everythings a little bit different from Ubuntu and Windows. One thing that I miss and was wondering where its hiding was My Computer.

It's right in front of you (HA HAHA XDXDXD.... okay, okay, I'm done....)

as far as mounting drives and external media, I've always gone with the manual command line mounting method of "mount /media/mountpoint" and keeping a good up-to-date fstab with UUID's. For automounting, take a look at the wikis for Udev and hal,

TheSaint · 2010-11-25 14:38:19

Kidfork wrote:

KDE - Dolphin

You may find your drivers on the small icon on the top left corner of the windows, if you'll click it you'll get the list
Menus are italian , but you may recognize the option ;(
Before click it
after click the icon

Last edited by TheSaint (2010-11-25 14:43:36)

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