Desktop camera mount icon

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park19

Beginner

Posts: 19

Tuesday, July 15th 2003, 5:31pm

Desktop camera mount icon

How do I create a desktop icon to mount my digital camera? The only way that I have been able to get it to work is to mount it as /dev/sda1 to /mnt/camera. I'd like to create an icon to do this, but if I select Create New from the desktop menu, there isn't a suitable choice. I tried to select a new CD-ROM icon and change the device, but there is no way to change the mount point.

Any ideas?

thanks.

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anda_skoa

Professional

Posts: 1,273

Location: Graz, Austria

Occupation: Software Developer

Tuesday, July 15th 2003, 5:43pm

try "Hardisk"

I think it will the list all devices which have entries in /etc/fstab

Cheers,
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Debian User

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park19

Beginner

Posts: 19

Tuesday, July 15th 2003, 6:34pm

Yes, I tried the Hard Disk option also. You can select the device for any of these, but I don't see any way to change the mount point. Unless there is a config file somewhere that can be edited after the icon is created.

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park19

Beginner

Posts: 19

Tuesday, July 15th 2003, 7:13pm

OK, I figured this one out. It's not too hard. I selected a new "Floppy" device and then edited the corresponding config file on my desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Dev=/dev/sda1
FSType=vfat
Icon=camera_mount
MountPoint=/mnt/camera
ReadOnly=1
Type=FSDevice
UnmountIcon=camera
X-KDE-Dynamic-Device=true

I had to create the mounted camera icon.

Now I can quickly tell when my camera is mounted.

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