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From: "Canek Peláez" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Gnome disk-mounter applet
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:06:24
Message-Id: ee2a916a0704090903s274b1c66x92975890349ca641@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Gnome disk-mounter applet by Lindsay Haisley
1 On 4/8/07, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> wrote:
2 [...]
3 > So I end up having 2 icons on my "Computer" for every USB device I want
4 > to mount - one on which nothing gets mounted, and one which gets
5 > dynamically created using a name I don't want, and which holds the mount
6 > as spec'd in /etc/fstab.
7 >
8 > I've tried tinkering with udev ATTR{key} assignment but this is largely
9 > undocumented and I can't make it work, and can't find any other way deal
10 > with this issue. Is there some documentation on this facility and on
11 > the applet somewhere, or is it just mainly broken, as I suspect?
12
13 Question: why are you using the disk-mounter applet? Since GNOME 2.14
14 (maybe before, I could be wrong) HAL and udev handles everything
15 automagically. Specially with USB disks.
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17 Canek Peláez Valdés
18 Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
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Re: [gentoo-desktop] Gnome disk-mounter applet Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>