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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting when a USB device is attached
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:40:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060206114058.13ee44e7@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602061224.04254.jan.callewaert@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:24:00 +0100, Jan Callewaert wrote:

> > GNOME 2.12 do this for you, if you put yourself in the plugdev group.
> > It just works.

> Just like KDE 3.5

Neither GNOME nor KDE can do what the OP asked for. They can automount
the device, but they won't sync with a directory and then unmount it. You
need a udev script for this, which also has the advantage of being
desktop-independent - it doesn't even need a desktop.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Brain fried -- core dumped.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-06 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-05 22:09 [gentoo-user] Detecting when a USB device is attached James Colby
2006-02-05 22:35 ` Maximilian Gass
2006-02-05 23:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06  6:54   ` Canek Peláez
2006-02-06 11:24     ` Jan Callewaert
2006-02-06 11:40       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-02-06 12:48       ` Iain Buchanan
2006-02-06 13:36         ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-02-06 14:08           ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06 14:12             ` Richard Fish
2006-02-06 15:20               ` James
2006-02-06 18:00                 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-07  8:47                   ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06 15:07             ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-06 17:39               ` Neil Bothwick

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