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How to get devices on the desktop automatically

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Saturday, July 26th 2008, 6:14pm

How to get devices on the desktop automatically

I'm not sure this is really a KDE question, but I've tried elsewhere without success. I'm using KDE 4.0.5 with Fedora 9. Before I upgraded, when I plugged a camera, or a thumb drive, or whatever, into a USB port, an icon would pop up on the desktop which would allow me to access the device, and when the time came, to safely remove it. That no longer happens. I get a few seconds to open it with dolphin, which is OK but a step down from what used to happen.

How do I get the old behavior back?

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Saturday, July 26th 2008, 6:30pm

I don't know fedora, and this is working fine for me (Kubuntu 8.04, KDE4.1 rc1). So maybe this ongoing discussion will finally get a result:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread…368#post1052368
Other than that, the device notifier relies on HAL, so it's more likely that there is a problem.

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Saturday, July 26th 2008, 9:38pm

Thanks for the Fedora thread, I hope something shows up. I should have mentioned that when i went in with Gnome, I got the old behavior, but not under KDE - that's why I came here. Where do I go to manage what shows up on the desktop?

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Saturday, July 26th 2008, 9:49pm

Ah! I must have totally misunderstood you, sorry. Thought you mean the device notifier widget.
What you mean, automatic icons on the desktop, is not possible atm in KDE4. Under KDE3 there is, i think.
You could try my mentioned device notifier (right click on desktop -> add widgets -> device notifier). Maybe it fits your needs.

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Saturday, July 26th 2008, 10:46pm

Actually it's not so much detecting them, it's giving me an easy way to get them off safely - now I have to su to root and unmount. I could write a little suid program to do it, but I thought there would be an easy standard way to do it.

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Saturday, July 26th 2008, 11:07pm

Actually that's what the notifier is doing. See the attacked screenshot. With the round button on the right side of the mounted device i can unmount it.
neverendingo has attached the following image:
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Saturday, July 26th 2008, 11:33pm

Hm. I don't get that button on my devices - my olympus digicam, for example. Also, I can't seem to move the notifier around on the desktop, and it chose an unfortunate location, right over the trash can. I guess I can move the trash can.

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Saturday, July 26th 2008, 11:43pm

That' unfortunate. I can't really remember, when this was introduced, i am running 4.1rc1 right now, so maybe it is not in 4.0.5.
But the 4.1 release is coming very soon, so you should get this functionality, if it is really not there. ;)

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