There are some basic configuration options in the "Removable Drives and
Media" applet in Gnome, but not much else that I can see. But it is
obviously Gnome Volume Manager that is doing some of the work that results
in removable media drive icons that show up on my Desktop, as when I boot
into xfc4, my removable media doesn't even mount, at least automatically.

doug

On 2/5/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Monday 05 February 2007, Douglas Linford wrote:
> > Alan,
> >
> > Thank you for the explanation...some of this helps, I already knew
> > about the mount command. I have hal and dbus installed...what GUI
> > tools for those apps were you refering to?
>
> In KDE it's controlled by kcontrol - that enormous config app with 1000s
> of selectable options. There's a selection near the top of the menu
> which asks you which icons to display on the desktop. Options include a
> large range of mounted and unmounted storage device types.
>
> I can't help much with Gnome (I don't use it) but surely it will be part
> of the vast array of configuration options available in the Preferences
> menu. This is installed automatically with Gnome. In my limited
> experience with Gnome I have always found that a device can be accessed
> through the middle Other menu
>
> alan
>
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