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#1 2010-02-04 08:47:34
- elliott
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[Solved] Strange Gnome Auto-mounting Behavior
When I insert a thumbdrive or SD card I don't get an icon for it on the desktop. I do get one in the side pane of Nautilus though and if I click it, it mounts and opens without a problem, after it is mounted an icon shows up on the desktop. I am not normally a Gnome user, but I don't think this is how it is supposed to work. This is a very fresh install, all daemons that should be running are running and I am not seeing anything weird in dmesg.
Isn't there somewhere to set the behavior of this in Gnome? It has been a long time since I have used it, I swear there are less options now than there used to be.
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#2 2010-02-04 16:57:37
- rsambuca
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Re: [Solved] Strange Gnome Auto-mounting Behavior
You can change the default settings with gconf-editor.
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#3 2010-02-04 19:35:39
- eggplantbren
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Re: [Solved] Strange Gnome Auto-mounting Behavior
You should get an icon on the desktop. This recently broke for me, but then devicekit-disks got updated and now it works again.
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#4 2010-02-04 20:26:01
- elliott
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Re: [Solved] Strange Gnome Auto-mounting Behavior
You can change the default settings with gconf-editor.
I only found two keys related to auto-mounting:
/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open
/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automountBoth are set to 'true', which is apparently the default. So I would assume it should be mounting the drives without any interaction from me and displaying the icon on the desktop, but the drives aren't being mounted until I click them in Nautilus.
EDIT:
You should get an icon on the desktop. This recently broke for me, but then devicekit-disks got updated and now it works again.
That was it, my mirror (easynews) seems to be a little out of date, I grabbed devicekit-disks 009-4 from the main Arch FTP and it works as expected now. Thank you.
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